"My biggest burden has been paying school fees for my children.I have always wanted to give them my best but that has not been possible due to lack of money.My daughter who is in her second year of secondary school received a letter admission to a well performing boarding school but I could not raise money to take her there.She was forced to go to a day school closer home.She was very disappointed.I am worried that this could happen to my second born who is currently sitting for her final exams in Primary school.I currently have fees arrears amounting to Ksh7,000.Sometimes my daughter is sent home for lack of school fees.I depend on subsistence farming which does not give me enough.I cultivate 0.3 acres of land.This piece is enough to give me only 3 sacks of maize."

"I spent part of my transfer on starting up a business. I sell vegetables and fruits. I have been jobless for two months after the business that I was operating in a place called Gikomba was destroyed by fire. Although it has not picked well and the profits are less as compared to the previous one, at least I have something to put food on the table. Besides starting a business, I also bought a music system for entertainment. I decided to save the remaining chunk of money which I plan to use in reviving the first business that I was operating in Gikomba because it less hectic and I spend less time operating it hence have time with my family."

"I expect my life to have changed in many ways. I will have gotten rid of the expense of having to buy milk for daily consumption. I will, in fact, be making money from selling the extra milk that I will be producing. I also expect my poultry project to have further expanded because I keep on buying more every month and hatching more chickens. I see my self leaving a better life that will be sufficiently provided for."

"The biggest hardship faced in my life is inadequate money to educate and feed my children. "

"The biggest hardship I face is lack of enough money. This has resulted to lack of some basic needs like proper education and clothing in my home. I have also failed to acquire some assets like oxen that would facilitate cultivation hence lack of adequate food for my family members."

"Receiving this money means that I will to go for a teaching course. I have been gambling with life with no hope of doing any course after complete my senior four 2016. The money will enable me do a teaching course where I may be earning a living in future "

"Receiving this money means that I will be in position to buy land. I hired out part of my land due to poverty that attacked the family members. I have not enough farm land currently and has resulted in to poor harvests each season. Givedirectly transfers I will spend for repossesing my land. This land I will cultivate it inorder to improve on the food basket for my family members."

"Receiving this money means that I will be able to Educate my children. I have three sons all studying in malera secondary school but paying thier fees is a real struggle. This is because I depend on selling produce for money which is unreliable due to seasonality. My sons will be in position to study well un disturbed at school once I clear their fees. They may get jobs in future for sustaining their families and myself."

"In the next six months, I expect an improved living standard. I expect to have fully furnished my new house and to have bought new beddings thus will have a comfortable place to spend my nights at. I expect raising my daily household needs will be much easier since will spend more of my income on having completed what has been pressing me."

"Living in a permanent house is the biggest difference in my daily life. Since we only have a single parent who is very old, and I being the firstborn, I did not have any hopes of sleeping under a permanent house anytime soon. Some years back my mother passed on and I had to drop out of school and look after my siblings since my dad is very old. I had to do some casual jobs getting a meager wage which could only sustain us with the basic needs. The money was barely enough for the basic necessities, leave alone saving up to build a house. The house we used to stay in was small and in a critical condition, leaking every now and then. The transfers from GD has transformed us because we are now sleeping under a spacious permanent house."