"As the second transfer was coming to an end, I got an idea that has now turned to a goal that I am struggling to see it coming to pass. I would like to be a great farmer based in livestock raring especially goats. Although raring cows is the best thing to do I choose goats because of the climatic condition of our area. Cows will not do well because of the lack of pasture and the hardship of sourcing for water."

"I spent KES 30,000 from my most recent transfers to buy two heifers. I shall raise them to help my family get constantt milk supply in future, thus whatever cash I would have used to buy milk for the family will be diverted in paying for my children school fees. In the event there is no money to pay fees, I would consider selling one of them to raise fees for my children. Secondly, I spent KES 20,000 on buying a 2000 liters tank through which we can harvest rain water. This has in the recent relieved my family from the burden of fetching water from the dam. Lastly, I used KES 2000 to pay school fees with ease for my 3 children who are still in primary school. Previously, I used to struggle alot since I am a widow with no one to depend on for an additional support."

"When I completed my education 4 years ago as a teacher, I ventured into farming. I have planted both tomatoes and tissue cultured bananas. Since our area has been dry for most of the days, we have been doing the irrigation by fetching water in a nearby river and doing the irrigation. It is tedious to us as we do it ourselves, especially when fetching water. Receiving this money will make my work easier as I intend to purchase a money maker machine at a cost of KES.60,000. This will also improve the yields on the farm as we plan to expand the farm for bananas. The remaining amount will boost in buying the seedlings and also hire people to assist planting."

"Construction of semi permanent houses is my profession. I earn around 15 000 KES when I build a structure which take twenty-one days to complete. It also take me not less than two days to get a call for a job. This amount is supposed to feed my family of seven, pay school fees for my two schooling children as well as cater for other household needs such as food and water( We ferry water from very far places, this has made this commodity expensive because of its scarcity). The unpredictable low income and sometimes lack of job is currently my major challenge."

"Because of lack of rain, the cost of living has risen so high. I am forced to buy everything including food and water. This becomes more difficult because as a farmer I have no other source of income. We sometimes skip meals and my children are often sent home due to lack of school fees. These are just but a few of my challenges."

"Access to water is my main concern. Every day I live the house at six in the morning to fetch water and come back two hours later. This is frustrating and tiring. Climate change has affected lives in a big way. Water and food are scarce. Students have had to drop out of school to help parents look for opportunities for money. The main source of income here is charcoal vending."

"My biggest challenge is draught that has affected availability of water in this area. I currently have to walk about five kilometres to the nearest water point which is just a water pan. Initially we could get water from a nearby water pan but it dried up. This also affects my business because water pan only contains flood water that is not so safe for use in a cafe. It's also so hard to get enough amounts of water each day because of the time taken to go get it. I would be happy if we could get solution to this."

"I have a lot of problems around getting family supplies but water problem is still the most pronounced. We use to get water from a particular water pan around ten kilometres from my place but it recently dried out. Since then we've been forced to be buying from another private one that is about five kilometres from my home. Twenty gallons at 5 KES which is reasonable even though still expensive according to the village standards. Again these water pans do not have safe water as they only collect flood water."

"After I received the recent funds from GiveDirectly I decided that I should purchase some clothes for myself since I barely had enough and the ones that I had were mostly old, torn and worn out. I could barely even leave home since I had nothing presentable to wear. Soon after confirming that I had received the money I used KES 1,100 in buying something to wear. I was left with a balance of KES 2,900 where I used KES 1,000 to buy two hens since I wanted to venture in poultry farming because it was manageable and I could benefit both domestically and commercially in the future. After that I took remaining balance and used KES 500 to buy maize flour, KES 200 to buy drinking water since it was scarce and KES 200 to buy millet flour for porridge."

"Back in the village a group of some of us decided to form a savings committee where we contributed money and delivered it to individual people at intervals per month. The whole purpose for this was so that once it became someone's turn to receive the money it would be a significant amount and they could indulge or use it in any project they preferred. So when I received the money I went ahead and contributed KES 2,000 to the savings committee and hopefully when my turn comes to eventually receive the money I will get KES 15,000 which I plan on using to help renovate my house since it very old and in a poor state and I am scared that it might collapse. Lastly I was left with KES 1,000 which I used to buy eight packets of maize flour and six gallons of water for KES 260 since drinking water was scarce."