He is a partial orphan currently living with his mother. The father died in 2008. The mother is a peasant farmer who is increasingly finding it difficult to support her family and also to keep her three other children in secondary school. Alloyce has many times been sent out of school for lack of school fees. His dream is to become a neurologist.

Kidawa's father died while her mother was still pregnant with her. In 1997, when Kidawa was just two years old, her mother died as well. Kidawa now lives with her grandfather and uncle. Her grandfather is poor and depends on a small digging farm to provide for Kidawa.