"This money means that I will be able to build a house for my family. The houses we are living in now is small and thatched with grass. I will also be able to buy utensils, clothes and food."

"When I wake up early in the morning, I am obliged to look for water. Around my area, the nearest water point is almost 7 kilometers away. For fresh drinking water, we are forced to by a 20 litres jerican at a cost of 30 Kenya shilling from the boozers. With the distance, cost of the jerican, and also the scorching sun, it becomes difficult to make at least 3 trips a day. So, water scarcity is my biggest hardship that I have ever faced in my life."

"The biggest hardship I have faced and still facing is going to the gardener/farm everytime yet I do. It get to harvest enough food."

"The recipient was so happy and is still is all thanks to the program"

"Truth be told, this was a special moment for me in my life. I never knew that I would be receiving such an amount of money. It was an exciting moment and the feeling was out of this world."

"Financial instability is the biggest hardship I have ever faced in my life. This is because I am a charcoal burner earning very little amount, which can not enable me to buy livestock and cater to the needs of the family. My husband has been sick for a while now, and he can not generate for the family. So I have remained the only laborer of the family."

"I was evacuated from Mau forest and since then I secured a casual labour of ridding a motorcycle, to me life has been so turf that I barely spend the little I get to buy food and clothing to my children."

"I leave in a small house which always make me feel ashamed when I have visitors, my husband and I have to look for a place to accommodate our visitors, and this brings alot of worry to me in the society, my children are always embarrassed at all time and keep asking me about the house."

"I am a subsistence farmer who has been facing lots of challenges regarding the storage of my produce. Some of our crops would get spoiled when rained on and exposed to other extreme weather conditions. As such, we have been experiencing shortage of food. Hence, receiving this money means that our produce shall no longer get spoilt since we will build a store."

"Unemployment is the biggest hardship I have ever faced in my life. To provide for my family of seven children, I need employment to earn an income. For the past five years, I have tried to search for any employment slot but luck has not been on my side. As a family, we are forced to only depend on my husband, which is challenging because my husband's salary cannot sustain us."