The money will meant building a house and buying beddings. We are 3 people in my family, myself and my spouse with a 3 year old son. On average we make K5000 ($4.98) per month. Mostly we get that kind of money after selling our farms produce. Apart from selling farm produce, we also depends on piece work, for example I can work on other people's farm or drawing water at a construction place. I have been living in the mad house for almost half of my life. This house is my second, after the first one was damaged by the rains a year ago. Those houses have alot of problems especially here, were we are close to lake Malombe. During rain season the moisture can most of the times raised up to roof level, cause danger to our life's. The money gift will help me to build a house using bricks and I am dreaming of having an iron sheets as a roof. Also I want to buy duvet and a nice blanket as currently am using sacks as my beddings. Lastly I will buy clothes and shoes for the whole family. At the moment we can not afford to buy a cover up shoes but we depend much on flip flops. I would like to send my gratitude to GD for the cash gift that I have been promised to receive.

I am sometimes happy in the afternoon or in the morning. In the afternoons am happy if my stomach is full. Apart from that, it's the time I use to chat and share ideas with my friend and relatives. In morning am happy, because it's a brand new day. I took it as a privilege and a gift from God.

Poverty and lack of food are the biggest hardships that I have faced. I have been wanting to move from this area and to go at a high lands due as we are mostly affected by floods. But I have not found enough money to buy it. We tried to negotiate on a piece of land which was selling at K50 000 ($48) but that time we had only half of the amount which the owner did not accept. Due to poverty, I am forced to be here at the village with no hope of moving to another place. Secondly, I farm on a piece of land were half of it is sand and half is sand/roam soil. That condition forces me to farm plant maize at only half of the land living the sand area in farmed. The good part is, my farm land do not require fertilizer but still I have shortage of food.