"To me Yana receiving this money means that I am now being helped to over come so of the hardships that I face in my life. I am beyond happy as this is something i never expected."

"After the death of my husband 8 years ago, I was forced to return to my maternal home because no one was there to provide for my household's needs. Upon reaching home, I was given a small grass-thatched house to shelter with my children. This house has of late been leaking during the rainy season and its walls are collapsing such that, I no longer enjoy my life, as well as the security of my children, is also at stake. Receiving this money means changing my status quo by constructing a spacious house for my family that will spare us from the danger of sleeping in this kind of house. This plan will cost me a maximum of 600 dollars of the transfers. The remaining amount will help me to buy 7 goats that will support my children's education when they multiply, as well as starting my own business of vending some foodstuff."

"The biggest hardship i have faced in my life is basically lack of a good house. I do not have resources to build one."

"I rely on selling firewood and we walk very long distances to find firewood to sell so that we can buy food and some other basic necessities, and some times we sleep without eating anything when my business hasn't done well that day"

"I am a housewife who depends on my husband who works as a casual laborer at our nearby center. This job earns him 300 Kenya shillings in a day. This amount is not enough to cater for all our needs such as school fees, thus making us have pending school fees areas. Therefore, lack of a good source of income is my biggest hardship."

"The biggest hardship I'm currently facing is of a house,honestly i don't have a good house at all,I'm currently sleeping in a shark because my house is half down."

"Receiving this money will help me finalise my house which is incomplete. I also believe the money will help me purchase enough fertilizers for next year as this year I did not harvest enough food due to lack of money for fertilizers"

"The biggest hardship is having a proper source of money such as a business,its only my husband who is a bread winner and not helping him to support this family everyday breaks my heart.As soon as i get the transfer i want to invest,I'm thinking of selling second hand clothes and i know this business will work for me because no one really does that in this village."

"Receiving this money means so much to me,I'm very grateful for this opportunity,there has never been a programme that i ever benefited in this village this is my ever first programme to be enrolled so I'm so thankful."

"The rising price of commodities where by iam even failling to buy salt and soup is the biggest hardship i have faced in my life, along time ago having a 100 kwacha we could buy enough basic needs for the family but now it is impossible"