"I bought a mattress and a bed since I was in dire need of getting a comfortable sleep. Some parts of the roof of my main house had been blown off and therefore I renovated it to curb it from leakage. That is how I spent my first transfer."

"Most of my transfer was spent to buy iron sheets because I had to build for my family an iron roofed house so as not to keep on moving from our grass thatched house to my mother's iron roofed house whenever it was raining. I also bought building materials, 1 sack of maize for my family's consumption, bought armchairs for my new house, bought a mattress because I needed to sleep in a clean place, bought clothes for my family, and shoes for myself."

"I spent 30,000 KES of my second transfer to buy two oxen so that I can save the money which I used for hiring oxen and pay only for labour and use the money for buying other basic items in the house.I also bought chair cushions, a mattress,1 sack of maize,clothes and paid school fees for my children."

"I spent my first transfer on buying bedding, a mattress,paid school fees and used the remaining money on food.I spent more than half of my transfer on buying a mattress and bedding because the mattress i had was too thin and used to give me back aches, i also had a light sheet for a bedding and i would suffer from cold related ailments often."

"I spent my second cash transfer on building a kitchen, bought the house hold items that I lacked such as mattress, blankets, 2 sacs of maize for food security and 2 bull for ploughing."

"I needed a more comfortable surface to sleep on and therefore I spent the whole of my first transfer on a a bed and a 5 by 6 high density mattress."

"I spent my first transfer on buying a mattress and a solar panel.I used a large sum of my transfer to buy a solar panel to save me the cost of buying kerosene and charging my phone elsewhere."

"I spent my first transfer on buying a mattress and food,i bought a mattress worth 4,000 KES because i used to sleep on a reed mat which was very uncomfortable and longed to sleep on a soft place.I used the remaini g money on food because the transfer gave me the opportunity to give my family three meals a day as opposed to a meal a day that they were used to."

"I spent most of my transfer to buy steel door. I am a student and most of the time am not at home meaning that with the door I had, my house could be broken into and my books stolen. I also paid college fees, bought steel windows, bought a bed, bought a mattress, and 2 goats."

"I spent my first transfer on buying a mattress at 4,000 KES and used the rest of the money on food.I bought a mattress because i used to sleep on a reed mat on a bare floor which is very uncomfortable and for the first time i wanted to have a peaceful sleep in a soft place,i used the remaining money to purchase a sack of maize and bought other food stuff because many a times my family had gone hungry or survived on one meal a day because we had no money so the transfers gave me the opportunity to feed my family well."