"When I dont find a piece work on the day, I find it hard to buy food in our household."

"I dont have permanent means of getting money feed my wife and kids and this assistance is a game changer to me because I see myself buying more food with the money"

"I do not have adequate food for my grandchildren, whose parents left me with, some of them passed out, some of them went out of the country to search for greener pastures, for me to source money for basic needs of these grandchildren it is not easy, I have to sell some of my bags of maize, the second challenge here is my house, we sleep with so much fears more especially during rainy season, once I receive the cash,I will build a new house in which I will be staying in comfortably."

"As you can see, my house is in a very bad state, it gives me alot of discomfort more especially during the rainy season, I have planned to build another house roofed with iron sheets, that will do good for me and my family"

"As a nuclear family with young children who consume milk daily, we usually spend KES 30 on purchasing milk from our neighbors. Whenever we do not have funds, we would do without the precious commodity. We have been doing this for some years because we do not have a cow. So, receiving this money means we shall afford to buy a dairy cow, hence, ensuring that my family gets adequate milk for consumption and sale of any surpluses. Precisely, I will utilize about KES 35 000 on purchasing the cow. Also, I will use approximately KES 15 000 on fencing my compound and paddocking my land. Finally, I will spend any remaining amount on starting up a shop business."

"The biggest hardship i have faced in my life is i live unhappy life. I feel like i am not enjoying my marriage life as my husband is always in South Africa and when he comes he does not stay long enough. I am married but i don't feel like i have a man because i always feel lonely."

"The biggest hardship i have faced in my life has been lack of enough food. I always face hunger because i don't harvest much. The main reason why i don't harvest much is i don't apply fertilizer to the maize. Fertilizer is very expensive and i can not afford to buy."

"The biggest hardship that I have faced is shortage of food. It is hard for me to provide food for my family sometimes because our harvests do not sustain us for the whole year."

"Life is hard and unbearable for me. I drop out of school in class 5. I was weak in class. I am a casual laborer, mostly involved in weeding crops or clearing land, and digging latrines holes to be able to fend for my family. We live from hand to mouth, in order for me to purchase food I have no option but to engage myself in these casual works, times they are not available, other times I get meager wages which hardly enables me to buy the basic needs I require."

"Ours has been to purchase a dairy cow. At the moment we do not own any, we usually purchase milk from the nearby Kabisimba centre at a price of KES 60 per litre. To us it is expensive, a time we cook tea without milk when we are unable to purchase it. We intend to buy a dairy cow of KES 40000. It will enable us to be self-sufficient in milk production as well as be able to sell the surplus to support other several needs for our family such as paying for school fees.We will use the other money to build a house for our son."