"My life is different in that I have been able to build for my self a better spacious permanent house that I couldn't have managed if it wasn't because of the transfer that I received. Secondly, I'm enjoying the milk from the cow that I bought."

"Receiving this money means that poverty level will decrease in my household. I will use the money to build a new house and use part of it to buy a dairy cow as well as buy food for my family."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that these transfers have enabled me to get milk from the cow I bought and my kids have better clothing."

"The biggest difference in my life is that I am no longer going for casual jobs but working on my farm. I am always happy looking after my cow and working in my shamba as I have resources to spend on farming which I like the most."

"I spent part of my first transfer on buying a cow. This will be like my investment in the future as just keeping money can get used up without any profit or gain. I also bought clothes for my family and myself since we hardly had any decent clothes. I then paid school fees for my three children and got some school uniform for two children who did not have any. I also bought solar that is helping me in lighting the house and saving interms of buying parafin for lighting. I am still reserving some money to buy two goats one for which I will use to paying respect (reading duwa) to my departed child and the other as saving."

"The only goal I have is to plaster my house so that I can be relieved of the stress of looking for cow dung every time for repairing my house which is hectic especially with my old age."

"The biggest difference in my life is that now I can see my self in the same level with other people having my own cow and have fenced my compound like others."

"The greatest difference in my life is that now I have a cow in my compound.I have been leasing part of my field to people to graze their animals. Now I am happy to keep my own and can not continue to buy milk from others but milk my own cow."

"In the next six months I expect to have bought a cow."

"The biggest difference is now I have one more cow which gives me milk for use. Before I use to have only two cows which were not lactating when I got the payment but chose to add another lactating to get milk for use."