"Receiving this money has made me so happy. I am already in the process of laying bricks so this money will help me build my dream house, at least for my level."

"This year the harvest is not enough. I can see that I will continue struggling to make food provisions for my house."

"Receiving this money means better housing for my family. The current house I have is small, my sons are all grown up, I would have liked them to have their own separate house. This house would cost me KES 50000. For the rest of the amount, I'll purchase a cow. The current one I have is not mine so I do not have the power to do anything with it except just milk and take care of it. This will cost me KES 55000."

"The biggest hardship has been getting finances to finance projects that could give me money. The area I live in is quite dry, we don't harvest much from farming activities. We also lack enough feeds for farm animals meaning the product is low. The little I get from the farm goes to paying school fees for my three children in university. Since they started schooling I haven't had a break to concentrate on other things because it strains me a lot."

"I mostly struggle to find money to buy food and fertilizer in my household. Me being unable to buy fertilizer leads to shortage of food"

"The biggest harship I face is the insufficient food in my household. I believe I'll be happier when I'm able to eat without worry of where food will come from tomorrow."

"Receiving this money will allow me to build a house, considering it's just me and my children, I want to have my own room in the house."

"To me, receiving this money will enable me to build my own standard house, as you can see, this is not a good house we are living in. I'll also buy a mattress to sleep comfortably on with my wife, we also need clothes, so I'll be able to buy that."

"I am a livestock farmer, mainly keeping some goats and cows. However poor rainfall makes it very difficult to have a profitable venture from simply grazing the animals on the land. The only way is to improve how to do it by having a water storage tank and a chaff cutter that will make more feeds available for livestock, mainly from crop residue such as maize stalks. But I focus on education for my children whereby, I spend all my income from a small business on paying school fees. To improve my farm, I will spend about KES 30,000 on a Chaff cutter and KES 30,000 on a plastic water tank. I expect to increase my milk production from 10 liters to about 30, bringing my income to about KES 30,000 per month. I will be able to meet my child's education needs using this and also improve my home by building a better house."

"The biggest hardship that I face in my life is food insecurity. Perennial droughts in my area renders farming insufficient as all the crops, mainly maize have been failing. We have to buy all the food items we take from my KES 300 income that I make from motorcycle taxi business . It strains me since we spend approximately KES 200 per day on food alone. If I manage to increase my income from poultry keeping, it will only be because of GD supporting me."