"This money means development here at home, it will used to procure fertiliser and other important things here at home" (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"Receiving this money means quality education for my children. I am a father to 10 children,5 in the primary and secondary school and three engaging in motorcycle riding after completing their form four level. They have been unable to further their studies due to a lack of school fees. We solely depend on farming as our economic activity and this is the source of school fees for my children. Because of unfavorable climatic conditions and diseases in the past 5 years, we have been unable to obtain a good harvest from our farms hence all my children have recorded a high rate of absenteeism in school. This has led to deterioration in their performance as compared to their earlier times in school when I could pay their school fees on time. These transfers will therefore enable me to settle the school fee debt of KES 25000 and the remaining amount will be given as a deposit for next term school fees which amounting to KES 54000."

"Receiving this money means that i will no longer be the same. I will be able to build a new house with bedrooms. The house am living in is just one room no bedrooms. Since my family is growing, i will need kids to have separate rooms. I will also buy bed and matress. Currently we cant afford to buy the said things because our income is low. Bicycle taxi is our reliable source of income and it brings roughly 20000 per month which can not be able to carter for all our needs." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"Currently we are not facing any big problems. My husband does bicycle taxi business and that helps alot. We eat regulary." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"Well my biggest difference is the upgrade in my living standards. I have multiple sources of income and also it as eased my troubles in terms of water. I now use my motorcycle to fetch water from faraway places. I am also able to sell some water and get money too. So I can say my life has changed for the better because of the funds,"

"The first thing when I get the money, I want to build my house and start my business. Another thing is to get on the traffic with more motorbikes." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"A friend of mine visited me in the month of May and trained me how to operate a motorcycle. This really made me happy since I can now ride well and I have been doing more and more practice. I hope that one day I will buy my own motorcycle so that I can be operating a taxi business as well as ferrying my own goods when I open a business that I am already planning for."

"Food insecurity and luck of clean drinking water is the biggest challenges we are facing in my house. Getting food means you have to do charcoal burning work which is very straneous and because everyone is relying on this job, the price of charcoal does remains stagnant. We are getting 500 KES per a suck of charcoal of 70 kilograms which is very little amount of money because working on a single suck of charcoal can take you more than 4 days. There is no water in our area. All water pans have dried up and we depend on motorcycle operators to bring water from Silaloni borehole which is 24 kilometres away from my house and we buy a 20 litres jerican at 100 KES which is too expensive to me. Something which can leave my family not taking shower for some days or even cook the food for the family."

"Receiving this money means i will be able to buy a motorcycle for bussiness for i have always wanted to do this business to provide for my family"

"I was happy when I learnt about this program in other villages and couldn't wait for it to get to my village. This is because i have always envied people ride motorcycles and longed for one for a long time. No matter how I tried I could never have enough money to buy one. The coming in of this program gives me the hope that I'll be able to buy one now."