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Hello dear members and friends, we warmly welcome you all to week 4 of this season 17 engagement challenge. How time flies! We truly appreciate all who have made entry in the soon to be concluded week 3 and to all who are yet to make their entries. Families matter to us and what they go through when the economy is harsh is what we want to talk about. Recently, families are under stress due to high cost of living and low income and this really affects the family budget and also affect how kids and other members of the family are cared for. In this week's contest, we will like you to talk about the effects of economic hardships on families. The topic is **The effects of economic hardships on families** Feel free to tell us what you and your family has gone through due to the hardships occasioned by the current economic situations in your country and how the family earnings are no longer covering the family budgets or expenses. What have you done to help or how are you all coping with it? What adjustments have you and your family made to be able to cope? You can include any scenario that can better explain the situation well. We hope that we can learn a lot from you all and thus be able to cope. ### Contest Rules * Entries to this contest are open to ALL Steemians * Post in the Steem kids and parents Community * Make sure that you follow club status (Club50/50, Club75, or Club100) * The title must be: **SEC17 WK:#4: the effects of economic hardships on families ** * Write a post of at least 350 words in any language * Plagiarism, AGI content, and voting bots are prohibited! * Only your own or free copyright images (source mentioned) * Posts must be exclusive therefore use the #steemexclusive tags among the tags #steemkidsnparents-s17w4 #yourcountry #clubstatus * Leave the link to your entry post in the comment section of this post * Vote and resteem this post * Invite two of your friends to join the contest * Share 10% beneficiary to @steemkidss to support community growth, and we will love it! (optional) * As this is an engagement challenge posts, entries should get at least 10 upvotes and 5 valid comments from other users to qualify as an entry at the end of the week and to stand a chance to win. We encourage you to vote and give quality comments (50+ words) on posts from fellow Steemians. * Authors must have shown active engagement with the posts of their fellow Steemians. * Quantity and quality are key and NOT most engaged. **REWARDS** The community will select 3 winners each week. * The top 3 weekly winners will receive 3 SP each with an extra prize votes from SC01 Participating time is from 00:00 (UTC) on Monday 29th to 23:59 (UTC) on Sunday 5th May, 2024. ![Picsart_22-11-07_09-07-05-188_1.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmbAh3auTDc43Mc6fFfk1uZh4NSLxyTZnoJs9fMxC86RUi/Picsart_22-11-07_09-07-05-188_1.jpg) **Feel free to drop your links on our telegram channel and ask your questions if any** https://t.me/+sKWVIdqcdGYzMzVk

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