"I was very happy in receiving my money, things been very ugly and difficult for ne in this town, I doing all I can in week to improve my house."

"Even though I'm often able to find construction work, I don't get picked to do the well paying tasks because I have not attained any formal training in masonry. I get paid KES 250-300 on the days I work and someone with experience and training doing the same work gets about KES 800. The difference in our income is a lot because I am not guaranteed that everyday I will be called for a job and paid and so it is not easy to sustain myself."

"I felt so happy the moment I received the money because I had received an amount that I wasn't expecting expecting to hold in my hands anytime soon. It was a moment of pure joy and happiness, and I felt so grateful as well."

"Receiving this money means quality education for my children. I have 3 children, one in college and two in secondary school. Yearly, I part with KES 21000 as their school's fees. I lost my husband in 2019 and life has been an up hill task for the family. My children have been sent out of school several times because I cannot raise school fees on time. I depend mainly on selling eggs in kipsuter Centre and with little profit to make, it has been so hard to raise school fees. I plan to use KES 70,000 on school fees till they complete their studies, the remaining I will use to buy a dairy cow worth KES 30,000."

"I'm not economically involved at the moment and only depending on my husband's income of about 5000 KES per month to be able to take care of myself and our son. Because we're only a family of three, it might seem like we have a lot but I know responsibilities will start creeping in soon as this family grows.Therefore I would like to buy more chicken and start raring goats as well so that I can use them as store of wealth. In times of emergencies we always have to beg which I do not enjoy, I want something that I can sell in such times to raise money."

"My daughter is currently in class seven at Kabatheni primary school. One year from now she will be joining high school and I know I'll need a lot of money to be able to take care of that. I therefore plan to buy many goats to help me keep my money in a form that is safe and grows in value so that in future when I need money for her education I just sell some and raise it. My husband also works in Mariakani making about 300 KES per day, but I know with that he can not comfortably afford it."

"Food security remains our biggest issue as we're both unemployed and what my husband does can't provide for our family of three. All these stems from the prolonged draught that's currently ongoing. My husband is a fisherman at a local river called Bemualage, but because of the low levels of water currently he can't get good catch. Most of time he only brings home the much that we can eat but we still need money to acquire some other things as well."