"I spent 24, 700 KES to enlarge my house, 16,500 KES to buy a cow and a mattress for 2,500 KES. The rest of the transfer was spent on daily HH expenses."

"I bought a steel door for 7,000 KES, seats for 20,000 KES, mattress for 4,000 KES, a cow for 12,000 KES and seedlings for 5,000 KES."

"I spent the transfer on buying a mattress 6000 KES, gave my spouse 1500 KES, 1000 KES bought shoes and used balance daily meals."

"I bought a cow (20000) a goat (2000), a mattress (3500) and timber to build a boat (15000)"

"I bought 18 iron sheets at 11,700 KES, 60 wall poles and roofing poles at 11,700 KES, 25 fisher boards at 3,550 KES, 13 kilograms of nails at 2,600 KES, used 5,000 KES transportation, paid 9,000 KES labor charge, one mattress at 4,000 KES then used 2,000 KES to buy clothes for my child and I."

"I bought a cow at 17,500 KES, one sofa set at 16,000 KES, one wooden table at 3,500 KES, one mattress at 5,100 KES, clothes for my family at 2,500 KES, one blanket at 500 KES, 60 kilograms of maize at 2,050 KES then used the rest on food for the house."

"GD does not lie and helps sort immediate needs unlike other NGOs that take us to training give us milk and bread yet we have children and other needs, some give one mattress and we have more than one child."

"I paid 10,000 KES school fee for my child, bought 15 iron sheets at 10,000 KES, one wooden bed at 5,000 KES, one mattress at 3,500 KES, one wooden chair at 3,000 KES, 16 wall poles at 2,400 KES, 7 kilograms of nails at 980 KES, three bags of cement at 2,250 KES, clothes for my children at 3,000 KES, one goat at 3,000 KES, put 3,000 KES aside to be using to travel to a hospital everyday for TB injection then used the rest on food for the house."

"This is how I spent my first lumpsum transfer: 3500 KES on a mattress and 3500 KES on motorcycle spare parts. I built a semi-permanent house of 35 iron sheets with 40000 KES and I saved the remaining 3000 KES."

"I paid college fees for 20,000 KES, I bought a cow for 13,000 KES, a mattress for 4,700 KES, utensils for 5,000 KES and 10,000 KES was spent on M-Kopa solar. (added money from first transfer)"