"My biggest challenge is money. I fail to buy food and clothes for my family because using have a stable source of income. I go find work to make money. I am the primary carer of my mother who is deaf and dumb. Because of her condition, she can't go out to look for piece jobs like I do. So she stays home and needs someone close with her all the time. This limits my time to go work because I still to keep an eye on her."

"At present we are dependent on two things for our survival as a household, thus, casual work and my husband's mat selling business. From these two, we are able to realize $10 a month, collectively, and this is far from enough to carter for our family needs and as such we are facing numerous challenges but one stands out and that is lack of food. As we speak we are stocked out of food and we are in search of pieceworks so that maybe we get paid and go buy maize for food."

"My biggest struggle is food. This is because I rely on piece work to have money. When it rains, there's work available in people's field so that's better. But once the season is gone, there's no work available and no money being made hence living in poverty."

"The challenges I meet are lack of money and food. This is because I don't have a source of income. The piece work I do doesn't nearly pay me enough to afford managing my home. We live off hand to mouth basis."

"My biggest struggle in life is lack of money. Money to buy food and attain my wishes. This is because we don't have a stable source of income. My husband went to Nsanje district to look for work to provide but with the high living conditions, we fail to attain most things because the money he sends is not enough. I also do casual work to add on what he's providing but that also isn't enough. We lack clothes, beddings and adequate household utensils."

"Like mentioned earlier on, we depend on casual labour and as a household and on a monthly basis we make about $5 which is not sufficient to sustain our needs. As a result we seem to be facing two main challenges, thus poor housing and lack of food. We wish we lived in a 4 roomed house and not this 2 roomed which doesn't offer us the privacy and comfort we desire. We fail to do that due to our limited finances. Additionally, we are also facing a hunger crisis such that we only eat once a day, thus, usually lunch, because we don't have food stocks at present and the one we get after our casual works is not enough for us to have 2 or 3 meals that we want per day."

"My biggest challenge is food. This is because of farming isn't yielding anything. We put work and effort but the rains don't go as planned in the end we don't harvest anything. To cushion this, I go out to look for piece work for money to buy food. My husband went to South Africa in 2019 for greener pastures to help support us. I love with my mother and siblings and my children, totalling 7 people. It's a challenge to provide for us all."

"Currently, the only challenges we are facing are lack of financial muscle improve our house condition and hunger. As you can see our house doesn't have a cemented floor and it's walls aren't plastered. We wish we did all that but due to the aforementioned challenge we are unable to fulfil that desire and live in a what we'd call a "comfortable house". On top of that, due to the climate change impact we are unable to harvest like we used to. For example, from 2015 going down the years, we used to get around 8 to 10 bags of maize for food from our 1 acre farmland. But since then up to now we only get 2 bags of maize from the same farmland. This has brought about hunger issues in our family."

"Currently the only challenges we are facing in our household are hunger and poor housing condition. We didn't harvest anything last season due to erratic rains and lack of application of fertilizer in our farm land. Consequently, we've been hit with this hunger crisis. Additionally, this house doesn't offer us the comfort we desire and unfortunately we are unable to achieve that due to financial constraints at present. We wish we lived in an iron sheet roofed house rather than this grass thatched one that leaks whenever it rains. These are the only hurdles we are currently facing."

"Landslides in that whenever it rains it leads to flash floods that ends up carrying away cattle and plants belonging to my neighbours, additionally I vividly remember like it was yesterday a landslide carried my house and almost claimed the lives of my loved ones leaving behind stones thus failed me to reconstruct a new home since I owned only one piece of land."