"The biggest hardship i have faced in life is hunger due to poverty. Due to our old age, my wife and i ain't strong enough to work in our farm thus this forces us to depend on our children for food and other needs. "

"Receiving this money is a great blessing to me.i have never received such an amount of non refundable cash.It will really help me in buying inputs for my farm as well as buying a cow which I don't currently have"

"My life has already changed after hearing the great news of unconditional cash transfers. Receiving this money means that I will get some relief from the routine casual work that we have always been relying on. I will builf our own house, buy a cow and do crop farming for a better living standard."

"In the next six months, I expect to have started up a tailoring school so that I can train other people too."

"Currently we are really happy in our household and at least we can sit and agree on what to do with every coin we have in our pockets. We now have a heifer and the construction of a bigger house for the household is ongoing."

"In the next six months, I expect to have constructed a decent house."

"I am now able to eat comfortably as opposed to how I used to do it before. I now have money to run my errands."

"I now have some cash from the sale of sugarcane that we made to the factory. I also have a plan to get a house for my family, something that we have yearned for in the past."

"I have a new goal of constructing a kitchen because my kitchen burnt down. I had this in mind but I couldn't afford it, so I didn't prioritize but now that I'm receiving money monthly I believe I can achieve it."

"At the moment, my husband wants to build a new house for the family and also start a small scale business that will help the entire house as we move into the future."