"I have a family of six members and four members are children schooling at secondary and primary school respectively. My husband is a motorcyclist and I work as a cook at a nearby secondary school earning $75 per month. The school is unstable financially such that I can work five months without any pay. The husband earns approximately $5 per day and not always. Generally, family income is mainly used for food. The children collectively have a a fee arrears of $200 which makes them stay home sometimes. Lack of reliable source of funds is the challenge I am facing."

"I have suffered ulcers for the last twenty-five year. This has caused me to miscarriage two times and has affected my work also. I cannot involve myself in tedious activities like charcoal burning and carrying more than five plastics of water from the water pan. Ulcers is the challenge I am currently facing."

"I am a housewife and my husband is a casual worker at Mombasa. He does not get work everyday so in a month he earns approximately $120. The money caters for food leaving other expenses pressing the family. I have two children schooling at Mangudho primary school. They have been out of school for two weeks now due to a school fees balance of $50. This has an effect on their performance during examinations. Lack of reliable income is the challenge I am facing."

"Am currently facing the challenges of hunger and sickness due to poverty. I don't have enough food for my family since my spouse is sickly and he under went through an operation,he had an issue with his intestines and it was put right and is still healing so am struggling as a woman to bring food on the table for my family as my husband recovers fully."

"As a household are currently facing one challenge and that is low food stock levels. We are only remaining with a single bag of maize and 2 bags of millet and we worry this will not sustain us until next year."

"As a household we are currently facing a number of challenges ranging from poor housing, lack of clothes and food. This house leaks whenever it rains and this brings us discomfort and restlessness. Additionally, we don't have any food stock left from our previous harvest and as such we rely on the bicycle cycling business which my husband, Jastin does and the returns from this are usually not enough to sustain us. He makes about 2$ a week and this doesn't help us meet our basic needs."

"Lack of food is the only hurdle I am currently facing. I and my 2 grandchildren, Aness James and Fransisco Ngalande sleep on empty stomachs most days due to lack of food. I only had 4 bags of millet this year which are done now and I have nowhere to turn to for food. I am restless because I am constantly worried about what I am to feed these children."

"Hunger is the only challenge we are facing currently. Due to the storm that hit us back in 2003 our land has been barren here in our area. We are unable to harvest anything from our maize fields. We depend on casual labour in a company called Demeta, right here in our community where we get paid 2$ a day. This is how we get by on a daily basis and it is honestly energy draining."