"The biggest difference in my daily life is that l am now staying in my own home where l do not need to warry that l will be chased away, l also staying very spacious comfortable house and not forgetting that l no longer spend money to buy parrafin since spent the money to buy solar which l am using for lighting my house."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that after surgery l am now better l can do things without depending on my one. "

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that l now sleeping on a very comfortable place as compared to before when l was sleeping on very thin mattress. "

"In my life, the hardest issue I have faced is lacking a piece of land to farm. I am a housewife and my activities are carried out within our homestead. the land we live in is a very small portion that is not enough for tilling. I have had to leave land for farming outside my village,far away in another county. It is very Essa xpensive operation yet I cannot just sit at home and do nothing. I have always wished to buy my own in order for reduce all the hustle that comes with farming along way away from here. "

"I am currently operating a video show in Mariango center, and the equipments am using in there are not mine. It has always been my greatest desire to fully own the business one day and am hopeful Give Directly is coming to my aid. Receiving this money means am going to acquire full ownership of the business and more returns will be coming my way. In addition, the house am living in right now is not complete. I still need to do partitioning and other final touches. The open windows have subjected my one-year old child to cold. I want to live a better life in a livable house and proceeds from the business will cater for this."

"I have always wanted to engage in poultry farming and receiving this money will help me accomplish this goal. I will set up a structure, buy 50 one day old chicks, feeds and medication. In a few months I will be able to sell them and meet my family's needs of food and education with the proceeds from it."

"The biggest hardship i have faced is meeting the family economic demands. My husband died in 1994 and left me with three children; the eldest was in class two and the youngest was two months old, ever since i have passed through economic hardship on how to clothe, feed, and educate them until now when they are adults. Life has been so difficult to me."

"My house is very small and this cannot accomodate my family. Some of my children are forced to seek for alternative shelter at night and this has lowered my dignity as a father due to the fact that I am not able to provide them with a place to sleep. "

"Receiving this money means I will be able to customarily legalise my marriage. For a long time I have wanted to pay dowry to legalize my marriage but I have not been able to do so because the little money I earn daily from the cane cutting and weeding that I in the farms goes into our food and clothing needs. With this transfer I will be able to buy cows and pay as bride price. The remaining balance will go into improving our house and tilling our farm to produce more food for the family because right now we already buying rains and the grain prices have started increasing."

"The biggest hardship I have faced is sickness. I am the first born in a family of seven, of late my mother have been attacked by arthritis and is on very expensive medication that have drained my savings hindering my plans to expand the business. "