"Owning a place of your own you call home is every human being's desire. I am leaving in great fear knowing that any given moment I can be evicted from the only place I call home. The thought of this(being evicted) gives me sleepless nights."

"Since I was diagnosed with high pressure, my life has never been the same(incapacitated). Receiving this money means good health as I will be able to get medical care. I do occasionally experience lower abdominal pains. A doctor suggested I should go for an X-ray. All these require money which presently has proved to be a challenge."

"I do not have a source of income and this affect me in such a big way; having to burn and sell charcoal to get money. Imagine at this old age I still have to go into the bushes and cut trunks for burning charcoal. And seemingly it's going to be for the rest of my life as I do not even have working children who can support since our husband is no longer economically active.I lost my first three children and the remaining two are half educated and are just hustlers in town hoping between one construction job to another despite the fact that one of them even has a chest condition that can't allow him to do such physical jobs."

"I am a driver, and depend on this to raise a family of 7. I earn KES 6,000 monthly but currently I am servicing a loan and after deducting the loan I am only left with only KES 3,000 which is not fully enough to cater for all the basic needs (food, clothing ,school levies) of my family"

"I started building my two-roomed house two years but I am yet to complete it. It has always been my wish to have a bigger house to accommodate my visitors. I plan to complete it, then furnish it with furniture and household items. This will cost me approximately KES 25000. I also plan to demolish the current kitchen I have and build a new one. The existing one is old and it leaks making it uncomfortable for my children who sleep there."