"I am happy to receive the money because at my age as a widower I don't have that energy to source money to buy my basic needs, I rely on handouts from my children and grandchildren, this money will be a relief to me and my grandchildren who tirelessly give me the much needed support"

"Povery has been a life time issue and we are hoping that this money will be the solution to that"

"My house got heavily damaged during the recent rainy season and I have been struggling to source money to get the house in shape"

"I have been lacking matress and adequate food, this year I only have one bag of maize which is not enough for me this year"

""I will add my business up because I'm presently involved in a small business of making and selling soap""

"I am currently faced with two key challenges. One of them is getting the tuition of my four children paid in full while the other is the renovation of our church which has been greatly affected by the storm due to the rainy season."

"The challenges I am facing right now is to get money and pay my children school fees and send the rest to school as well."

"My life is not really improving, because there is no finance help in order to learn trade. Because when I ask some of my families member for help, they always led me down. My wife left me because of condition in the that, sometime when he ask me to provide for the home and that which I can do and decided that I'm not man enough, so she left the house along with the two children (one boy, one girl) to her family."

"I would like to add my cows to enable me to earn some income in the future through the sale of milk, so when I receive this money I will buy two calves with KES 50000, also I will use another KES 20000 to renovate and buy furniture to my house. I will also use KES 20000 to start my enterprise (hotel). Now that I am struggling to provide food to my family I will therefore budget KES 10000 to buy food and clothing."

"I usually earn KES 100 from my casual job, this is not enough to buy food and other needs for my family. We at times skip meals or even use less preferred meals to survive."