"After teaching for the longest time,i went on retirement seven years ago and my children were still young and in school.i had not invested enough and now i am still struggling to get enough money to pay for their school fees.Two of my sons are still in university and tertiary college and their school fees totals upto Ksh 180,000 per year.I get stressed up when i see them staying at home for lack of school fees because it means they lag behind in schooling."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is food insecurity.This is because rains are erratic not enough leading to poor yields.I am a housewife and my husband depend on casual labor that earns him very little.Due to this I have been struggling to get food for my household forcing me to skip meals, situation that does I really dislike."

"The biggest hardship is financial constraints. I'm a farmer and for the last few years amount of rainfall in the area has been very low hence no production from the farm. The little I havest goes for food and I don't get surplus to sell hence doesn't allow me to save or cater for other family needs like better housing and clothing's."

"My biggest hardship is financial constraints. As a house wife and seeing my husband struggling to meet our basic needs and me not having a way of helping him, the little my husband gets goes for food and clothing's hence we can't develop the family to another level."

"The biggest harship I've faced is my living conditions. I need a matress to sleep on, I also have to paint my house, buy cement for the floor and also roof my house with iron sheets."

"Receiving this money will allow me to improve my house, it has a crack by the door so I want to fix that. I also need cement for my floor for me to be satisfied with my house."

"The biggest harship I've faced is my illness, I have been sick for a while that I'm happy that when I get the money, I will finally afford to get proper medical attention for my illness."

"We should appreciate that agriculture is the back bone of our economy, and we do depend on it for our days to day life. The climatic changes have proofed otherwise for there have been adverse cases of drought and hunger in our lands.Despite cultivating the farm well, I have have been unable to harvest making food insecurity my biggest hardship.For instance,at the moment ,I have maize at the farm but it's unproductive because of the harsh climate and diseases."

"Building additional rooms to my current house has been my biggest hardship.My girls sleep in the kitchen, (a separate house) , and this is insecure for them.Furthermore,the soot isn't favourable environment for their day to day study.With the rampant cases of rape and teenage pregnancy, they might fall victims sometime and there dreams will be cut short.This will be a burden to me."

"Food insecurity is my greatest hardship.The harsh climate isn't favourable for the crops (maize,beans) I farm in the small piece of land I have.Lately, there have been fluctuation in the onset of rains that have led to low productivity. I depend on subsistence farming to feed and educate my children.With this ,I have to use the income (2usd per day) I earn from my bodaboda business to purchase food once it's depleted and it's unfortunate that this can't sustain the family need at times ."