"Not having enough food to eat and some days even not eating at all."

"The death of my husband who left me alone with the children is the biggest hardship i have faced in my life because i had nobody to support me and my children."

"The biggest hardships that I face is lack of food, lack of school fees for my children and I do not have a good place to sleep. I will make sure that I will use this money to cover for the things that I lack."

"The main hardship that I face is lack of clean water. I have to walk a long distance down to the river in order to fetch water."

"I am very happy to receive this money because I know that I will use the money to achieve some of my dreams. I am also very happy because I know that this money means that some of my problems will come to an end."

"I am very happy that I am being considered to be in this program. I will be looking forward to receiving this money so that I can boost my small business. There are times that our business does not do very well because we do not have enough money to order materials to sell. This money will help me alot."

"My biggest hardship was when my house fell and had no place to stay"

"This fund means a lot to me and I am very happy for this program because I have plans I long to achieve, I want to add some bags of maize, I did not haverst and buy iron sheets to build a new home."

"The biggest hardship currently is lack of food. This happens because we rarely harvest enough to last us until the next harvesting season. This leads to long periods of hunger in my household. In a village like this where everyone is poor, there is no one to ask for assistance so we just sleep on empty stomach at times. This also affect how we search for opportunities to have some money or food for tha day."

"I struggle to find money to buy food and fertilizer to use in my farm. This leads to shortage of food"