I plan to save for the next four months and assist my husband in paying school fees for one of our daughters who is in secondary school. In a term, she needs about 23000 KES. At times she is sent back home for school fees and this interferes with concentration and performance at school. My husband works as a casual laborer in Mombasa and his earnings are not always sufficient. He struggles to even send money back home for food. I will use this opportunity to assist in any way I can, but most especially in paying school fees for the firstborn daughter. She has been so determined to clear school and obtain her certificate. We are all counting on her to succeed and at least assist or take care of us when she is successful.

I am grateful for life, every day I wake up healthy, with no ailment is enough reason for me to be happy. Having money is one cause of happiness but despite the lack of it, I remain hopeful that one day we will have more than enough.

It is so easy to take some things we get in life for granted. I never thought that there would come a time that I would go to bed hungry. That I would lack food to feed my children and be forced to cook porridge for them to eat so that they at least have something in their stomach to sustain them through the night. This is not what I had in mind for my children. I do not work and my husbands' income is not constant. When he sends money back home we are assured that we have food but once the money depletes we can stay without food for up to three days. The current drought has not made things easy for us, our farms are without food, there is no water for consumption and our livestock are dying. Things are worsening by the day and it is depressing.