"Sustaining a family of seven is a struggle for me. I struggle to pay school fees for my children and also providing food for them. It makes me feel sad seeing my children skipping meals or skipping school due to lack of money."

"Paying school fees has always been a biggest hardship in my life because the number of children that I have so far is just overwhelming"

"We often faced hunger year by year because we struggle to get cheap fertilizer so that alone affects the amount of food that we harvest year by year"

"The biggest hardship I have ever faced is food insecurity. Iam a widow and I rely on casual job that pays me little income which cannot sustain me with my family.Sometimes when I seek help from neighbors they talk negative about me.This embarrasses me."

"Lack of beddings is the biggest hardship.This is because we are old and rely on casual labor which does not give us enough money to buy food and beddings. Due to this my wife, daughter and I are forced to sleep on the floor so that we use the little money to buy food, something that embarrasses me when we get visitors."

"For the last 8 years, amount of rainfall has been low and no production from the farm, as a widower who depends mostly on farm produce to eat and have something small to use. I can say my biggest hardship is not getting daily meals of the day."

"I have always missed the opportunity to live a decent life like my neighbors in the village. Imagine sleeping on a wooden bed without a mattress while my children on the floor, it's a life that has robbed away my dignity and my children always wake up in the morning with a lot of pain. This has contributed to their low performance in school since they always look illy. Hence, I can consider financial instability as my biggest hardship."

"My biggest hardship is during rain season. I spend sleepless nights because my house is leaking. This sometimes makes my headache due to accumulated sleepless days. During short rains season on october and long rain seasons on May are my biggest harship period in life."

"With my old age, I am developing an eye problem that may lead to blindness if not checked early enough. Being that crop farming has been failing me, I cannot raise any money to seek eye care medication. I rely on my children who sometime fails to provide me as they also have their own families to cater for. This leaves me helpless."

"I spent part of my first transfer on buying building materials such as iron sheets, timber and nails. This was for the renovation of a new roof for my previous house becasue it has an old roof and some of its walls which were almost falling and I was afraid it would collapse anytime. Also, I bought chicken as an asset that I can rely on at any time considering I have been yearning to start poultry farming. Also, I cleared fees for my brother who was in secondary school. With the remaining, I bought enough food for my family"