"I spent my second transfer on 5 bags of cement and 11 iron sheet to finalise the house I started building with the first transfer. I also bought iron nails and wires that are used when fixing the iron sheets."

"Prolonged drought has made my vegetable business unreliable. Currently, my husband is the sole breadwinner and with an income of less than 500 KES, he cannot sustain a family of 6. It would be a pleasure if I can contribute to our financial status. I, therefore, intend to open a retail shop with these transfers. This will mean financial freedom and reduced struggle in the provision of our basic needs."

"I plan to use half of the cash transfer to pay school fees for my two school-going children and use the remaining half to improve my small businesses which profit I can use to support my family."

"Being a single parent, the challenges I am facing currently are the lack of finances to pay tuition fees for my 5 school-going children, and also don't have enough money to provide adequate food as well as kittering to their needs and wants. This has brought a loss of pride and confidence coupled with not being happy as head of my household."

"The challenges I am facing currently are living in a family house where my family and I are all sleeping in one room that isn't spacious. My spouse also doesn't provide food for me and the kids on time. With this, I have to do casual Labour on people farms to earn money to provide adequate food for the household. That which is not health-friendly for my body."

"Last academic year, my kids were regularly sent home from school due to my inability to pay their fees on time. My husband and I depend solely on subsistence farming, which doesn't really earn us much money. If I should benefit from this cash transfer, I hope of settling my kid tuition and start a new business to substain to my kids in school."

"My family has never own a house of our own since we came into existence. My husband, children and myself live in my father's house with my other siblings which doesn't give us privacy. As a result of limited rooms, my family sleep in the same room. If I am eligible to receive this cash transfer, I hope to build a house of my own."

"My greatest hardship right now is; my family survive on the sale of charcoal. Sometimes after producing the charcoal, we hardly get buyers. Without buyers, it becomes difficult for me to get money to cater to my family needs. During charcoal burning, I usually sleep on the coal field. At times I get exposed to mosquitoes bites that lead to Malaria."

"My major challenge is money. If we had money, things couldn't have been the way it is. People have to take my children away from me to send them to school we can not afford to support them."

"In 2012, my husband and I had a plan to work, save money to build our house to a better one. Unfortunately for us, he saw a chemical in a bottle and he mistakenly took it as a liquor and drank it. We spent all of our little earnings to save his life. He spent more than a month in Montovia under going medical treatment. Since then, He can't do much physical work. Things are so difficult for us. The house we live in as you can see is leaking. We have to sit up all through the night when it is raining. If we are blessed to receive this money and is enough, we are going to renovate our house. My daughter too is out of school. Since her school closed, I have not been able to get her report card because it costs money. Once we receive this money, part of it will go towards her school and I'll try to restart my business that broke down."