"I used my recent transfer to buy 3 bundles of expensive Zinc and assorted nails. I want to build my own house to stay.. My husband and I planned to wait for the next transfer to start building. Our two children school fees payment had been challenging for us. For this reason, we have been engaged in to hard labor which involved cutting palm and harvesting bitter ball to sell . Part of our transfer was used to settle our children school fees in Monrovia. I believed that with my transfer, Our daily stress has reduced and I now have a peace of mind."

"I am so grateful for this program as I believe that through this program, I will now be able to buy enough bags of maize for food so that I do not have to starve as I did not harvest enough food during the last growing season due to lack of money for fertilizers which affected my maize yields."

"Lack of a stable source of income is the main challenge that I am currently facing. Have you imagined being a widow with children in school and y having no stable source of getting money to educate them? This is the situation that I am in right now. My main economic activity that has helped me put food on the table is charcoal burning. However, my worry is that soon, there will be no more tree trunks to dig for charcoal burning leave alone trees. In a month I can only make a profit of 5000 KES. This amount is not sufficient to meet the needs of my family. The cash transfers will be a stepping stone for me and my family. I will purchase twelve goats which survive dry weather conditions and keep them and sell when they multiply as an investment for my children's education."

"Receiving this money means access to education for my children. I have a family of nine children who depend on me to meet their basic needs. Out of the nine, eight are currently in primary school. As we speak, the eldest who is in class eight has been sent home due to school fee arrears. He has been here for ten days now. However, due to lack of enough money, I am not able to raise the balance of 5100 KES. I depend on charcoal burning business that earns me less that 4000KES a month. All the profit I make from this business is solely used for food and water. This has made life more difficult. My joy is to see my children finish the basic education and join college so that they can get jobs. Upon receiving this cash transfers, I will clear the debts in school then buy twenty goats which I will keep and sell when they multiply as an investment for my children's education."

"The continued insufficiency of fresh water for domestic and agricultural uses is our biggest challenge. Since we live in an area that usually experiences long dry spells yet there is no perennial river in our neighborhood, we have been forced to borrow water from my neighbor's dam. This is because we have never managed to establish a dam. Unfortunately, our neighbor's dam would dry up regularly due to the high demand for water from the community."

"I have six children and we all squeeze in one tiny room because I have not had the money to construct a bigger house. Receiving this money will be a big boost because my first plan is to build a two roomed house at a cost of KES 35,000. One will be a bedroom and another one will serve as a sitting room where I can welcome visitors. I will also invest in goat farming so that I can eventually reduce the school fees burden in months to come."

"The challenge that I am currently facing is food insecurity due to prolonged drought. This is because it has been three years since we received ample rain and got good harvest. Since my husband passed on four years ago, I have been feeling lonely and sometimes I feel so week that I am not able to work at the charcoal production site. Due to this I struggle to get money to cater for my daily need like food and water. Sometimes, I borrow from relatives which makes me feel ashamed."

"In an effort to boost my source of livelihood and to enhance my disposable income, my plan is to purchase another dairy cow to add on the two that I have at the moment.Dairy keeping does well in our area, it is our main economic activity.The cost of milk has gone up , it is selling at a gate price of KES 38 per liter. My target is to produce at least 15 litres a day. I intend to use the rest of the money to expand my poultry project."

"If i receice this money, it will mean a lot to me. As you can see people are laughing at my family because we live in a kitchen like house. But this is what was given to us when we started our marriage 2 years ago. I want to build a beautiful house for my family, buy clothes and other things."

"I am facing a shortage supply of food. This is why i try to do small business by climbing the mountains to get firewood and sell it."