"The biggest hardship I have faced is me being epileptic. I have gone to hospitals but recently I have not being managing because I have to pay at the hospital and also, although I take the medicine, there's no improvement really and when I have episodes, they are so bad and take long to stop. In the end with lack of money, I have been going for local herbalist and I have seen improvements. This money will help cushion my family in times I can't provide because of my sickness."

"Having a mother who is of unstable mind has been one of the biggest hardships I have faced. All my life I have seen my mother walk aimlessly with old clothes on, and this is making me feel very sad. As a family, we have gotten into a desperate situation because we cannot do anything to help her get out of this. When we could not take good care of her our grandmother came for her and that worsen our predicament. My father was forced to marry the second wife and we had to fend for ourselves with my siblings."

"My current challenge right now is money problem , I do not have money to do some things that I want to do because I do not have money. Like I was saying I want to build my house but no money so that is my main challenge for now."

"Receiving this money means I will strengthen my source of income by adding a dairy cow to the one that I keep at the moment. I will buy a dairy, to sell milk at about KES 40,000. This will increase my daily income by KES 150 per day. This money will help to meet my household needs, buying food for the household I will then pay school fees for my child in a secondary school with the remaining transfers."

"Receiving this money means that I will start an alternative source of income through poultry keeping. I will build a new house and start chicken keeping. Ever since the time I stopped the business, running a small food joint due to my old age, I resorted to doing music but to no avail. It does not pay. I intend to spend about KES 20,000 on try keeping, by constructing a small house and buying about 30 birds. I will then spend the remaining amount on home improvement by putting up a decent house made of timber and demolishing the mud house that I currently live in."

"Receiving this money means that I can finally own some dairy cows. I have been keeping some cows that I borrowed from a friend, with only one that belongs to me. This has come with a lot of restrictions since I cannot keep them the best way I can. The owner has a big say in how I look after them, making this farming quite unproductive. I will two dairy cows at about KES 70,000 and return the borrowed ones. This will give me about 14 litres a day, translating to an average of KES 500. I will be saving these proceeds towards paying school fees for my child joining secondary school early next year."

"I built my house in 2011 but I did not complete it due to lack of money however I have been using it that way. Termites have destroyed part of the house and it needs to be repaired.So when I get this transfer I would like to rebuild it. This will cost approximately KES 50000. I have a power saw and it will help me in timber cutting thus reducing expenses."

"I have a small business operating a posho mill but in the last 6 months, it has not been functioning because it broke down. In this business, I was getting KES 400 profit per day which could enable me to feed my family. So when I get this money I plan to repair it. This will cost around KES 20000. Since the time it broke down life has not been the same I had to depend on farming of which is not reliable due to constant drought. With the pressure of children in different schools needing school fees life has been difficult."

"The money means enough food and a better house with iron sheets for my family. I have always wanted to have a house with iron sheets and a comfortable place to sleep. I have been trying to fulfill my desires by doing casual jobs and farming but still I have not achieved it yet."

"I have managed to buy all the necessary building materials for my house like timbers, bricks, nails, wires, doors and window frames. I have also hired skilled personels to help me with building, roofing and landscaping. Furthermore, I have bought blankets, matress as well other assorted household items like pots, plates and cups to topup what I initially had. I also paid school fees and bought school writing materials for my two children in secondary school, a boy and a girl."