"Financial constraints is the biggest challenge we are currently facing.We have 5 children in school and all of them require food and quality education.Meeting their needs has been a challenge because my husband and I depend on casual jobs as our source of income. These jobs have reduced because of the prolonged drought and low rate of farming within the community."

"Water. Getting clean water is a big challenge at Kilache.I have to walk for 40 minutes to Kibaoni water point to fetch water that at times is not running also paying school fees for our four children who are in secondary schools have been a challenge for us."

"My child has recurrent pneumonia. I have taken him to the hospital three times but it only stops for one and a half a month and it re-emerges. I am the only breadwinner in the family and the money I get from tapping palm wine is not enough to settle both hospital bills and cater for other family basic needs."

"As we speak I have not yet taken breakfast. Putting food on the table has been a challenge. My husband and I are subsistence farmers and because of lack of rain for a long period throughout 2021, we could not harvest anything."

"I lost my husband seventeen years ago leaving me behind with two daughters. I have been raising them on my own. He was a police officer so his passing away really affected me since I was depending on him financially. The biggest challenge now is a lack of finances. I am a peasant farmer now depending solely on farm produce which is also unreliable due to low rainfall. The much I get from the farm whenever I sell goes to paying school fees hence we remain with almost nothing to support ourselves."

"Due to the drought experienced in the region, subsistence farming has been affected adversely. This has brought so much hunger in our family which makes us taking only one meal a day."

"The challenges that we are currently are not making enough money through my carpentry business but it doesn't give me enough to buy food for my family."

"Receiving this money means supporting my hardworking wife who has taken up the role of providing for the family of seven after I fell from a palm tree two years ago. I would also spend the second transfer(KES 55,000) to erect a structure for my children whom we are currently sharing a rooftop. I feel embarrassed sharing a house with our children as this has deprived our privacy."

"I had no food to eat and I was struggling to have it because I had no fertilizer but because of the money, I have managed to but a few bags of maize and hunger is history now"

"With the prevailing economic crisis of the pandemic, my husband was retrenched from his place of work, which made me hustle to take care of the family. I had to sell all my chicken and my business collapsed because I was selling at a loss. This made my 5 children drop out of school and stay at home. Seeing my 5 children wearing school uniforms to play with because they do not have clothes to wear makes me ashamed. I do casual jobs like cultivating other people's land which is tiresome with fewer returns amounting to KES 300 per day which can not sustain my family."