"Having a family of 7 children, food insecurity the current challenge I am facing. To sufficiently provide food for these children is demanding. I work as a charcoal burner and I earn approximately 3,000 KES per month. This amount only lasts us 3 weeks maximum. skipping lunch meals is the order of the day. My children's health has been detoriated due to missing out on meals."

"I have a family 8 and they entirely depend on me for food and clothing. I am a motorbike taxi rider who earns KES 400-500 per day and this cannot sufficiently cater for everything that my family needs. I spend approximately KES 600 per day to buy food such as sugar, vegetables, maize flour, and milk. My school-going daughters need to have things like sanitary pads and it makes me feel bad when they miss school because of essential items like those."

"Receiving this money means to start goat keeping. I have longed to own goats but all the plans I had were fruitless. A goat is sold at 3,000 KES,I will buy 10 goats which will cost 30,000 KES. Goats give birth twice in a year this means by end of the year I will have doubled the number and I start selling them to help in settling my daily life expenses especially food and settling hospital bills for my grandchildren who are prone to diseases. I will also use the remaining to buy food, mattress and a bed."

"I live with worries as anytime I can receive a phone call that my wife has fainted as a result of the epilepsy or my child who has boils cannot walk and need to be picked. This even made me to leave my job at Garissa so that I can be close to my family."

"For me I do not have any new goals since the one I had aimed for was to start a business more so in poultry farming. I have desired to keep running this business since it is very lucrative but I did not have enough capital. I am so glad that through the profits I earn, I have been able to pay school fees for my children with ease."

"I practice mixed farming to meet my family's needs. I love it since I do not have any formal job to earn a living. I am a mother of four who is currently in various schools. As a mother, I wish nothing but the best for my children. I have chosen to educate them so that they would live a better life than ours. Our income from farming is not good enough to pay school fees and meet our daily household needs. Receiving this cash to me means good education for my children. I am planning to use KSH 15000 to pay my daughter's school fees. I prefer to prioritize this so that I would have ample time to plan other family activities. I don't like when she is sent home to come for a fee. It disturbs her studies thus ends up failing her exams. With a good time in school am sure she has good grades that can lead her to a good college."

"I live in a run-down small house. It is infested by termites and it's on the verge of collapsing. I will use 50,000 KES of my transfers to purchase 24 iron sheets and pay labor charges to build a two-bedroom house for my family of three. This will shelter us from the oncoming rainy season. I will also spend 18,000 KES of the remaining amount to buy six goats at 3000 KES each. This will act as our long-term investment. The rest of the transfer will be utilized in sustaining other household needs( e.g food and school fees for my three children who are still in primary school)"

"The challenge I face mostly is the amount of pay I get from my employer. This work needs a lot of energy and sacrificing own time to ensure that a day's work is done and despite the huge profits that come in we get little money. This money enables us to meet the needs of food and clothing only. I was recently wondering about the future when these children start schooling because more money will be needed."

"My challenge is lack of a reliable source of income. I have ten children; four are attending local schools while the rest have not yet started. This is partly because of lack of school fees as you might have notice we do not have any economic activity that can earn us good amount of money. Here in the village I majorly burn and sell charcoal which can earn me up to 1500 KES weekly on the higher side. This is not enough to feed my family and pay school fees for my children. It costs about 2700 KES for all of them in one academic term."

"I spent my transfer on, clothes, food and fees for children including renovation of my house"