"I spent a larger part of my transfers on paying school fees. I also bought a box for storing clothes,bought a goat as an investment, food , and the balance was spent on farming"

"I spent a larger part of my transfers to buy a cow for ploughing my farm.The remaining part of transfers was spent on buying wooden chairs and tables."

"I spent my third transfer on plastering my 2 room house, since before GD support ,it always required me to labour much in terms of repairing the gaping holes all the time, which my age cannot allow. I also paid Secondary school fee balance for my grandchild"

"I spent a larger part of the transfers to buy a dairy cow and calf. The remaining part of transfers was spent on renting a piece of land which I planted rice."

"I used part of my third transfer to cement my entire house,bought furniture and a solar light.The remaining amount was used to set up a small fish mongering business to help with income generation. "

"The biggest hardship i am facing is lack of oxen for ploughing. People who own oxen will first want to clear their fields to catch up with the rains before they can offer for anyone to use and in most cases, it finds when the planting season has passed. In the end, i get low yields that can not sustain the family just because i delay to plant. "

"My son is in one of the universities in Mombasa so when I received this transfer I used the whole amount to pay for his fees and upkeep."

"I spent my third transfer on completion of construction and plastering of my 3 room house which I started building using my second transfer.Housing was important to me since my previous house was grass-thatched and used to leak too much."

"I spent my third transfer on completion of our 3 room house whose work began using my second transfer. Housing was of great priority since our previous house was too small for us."

"i used my last transfer to pay school fees for my two children who are in high school, paying school fees took almost three quarter of the transfer so the remaining quarter I used to buy a water pump for horticulture farming."