"My parents passed on and left us while we were still young. I had not even cleared my secondary education and life was really difficult growing up without the much needed parental care."

"Am planning to spend my transfer on educational costs. I have three children who are in school; two are in tertiary college while the other one is in secondary school.This transfer will ease the huge burden of school fee."

"My desire was to continue with my education but due to lack of fees and support, I have failed to fulfill it and that has been the biggest hardship I have faced in life."

"The achievement I am proudest of is the education that I have.I completed high school two years ago and I feel very proud of that.Education has helped me learn a lot and I still want to continue to a higher level."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in life is lack of school fees.After I completed secondary education, I really wanted to go on with my studies.Due to lack of school fees I just stayed at home and finally decided to get married.I believe that if I had studied further I could be somewhere better than this."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is the struggle with my education due to lack of school fees.Coming from a humble background and a family of six children we really struggled with our education.My siblings and I were often sent home due to lack of school fees and this even made us have little to eat at home."

"I never had any formal employment as a parent yet I had this unending desire of giving my children quality education. There were the most difficult times of my life when I had four of my children in various secondary schools yet I did not have enough money to pay their school fee. At one point I felt my children would drop out of school and become a laughing stock in the village. I struggled as much as I could but when I felt the burden was too much a called for a fund raiser to help pay the school fees. This was the hardest part of my life but we thank God we got through the experience."

"The proudest achievement in my life is when my child joined college.I never imagined my child could continue with his education after high school due to joblessness but a friend managed to help me pay college fees."

"I was raised up in a very humble background where it was really difficult even to make ends meet. Being the firstborn in a family of eight, I was able to persue my studies up to standard eight. I could not proceed to my secondary education since my parents could not afford to pay my school fees. From this experience , I developed a desire to make a difference in my life. I was blessed to have a family of my own and with the little income that I get, I have always been able to provide for my family. My children are in school and nothing would stop me from giving them the best. My family alone gives me a great sense of pride."

"When my wife died in 2007, she left me with the responsibility of taking care of my family and with my little income it was hard hence I started boworring money from my relatives for my children education so I spent my third transfer on buying an ox which I use to cultivate my neighbors farms for pay .I also paid school fees for my two children who are high school ."