"The biggest hardship that I have faced is that I lack a stable source of income that can enable me to pay school fees for my son and provide basic needs for my children."

"Our proudest achievement is that we have been able to build our own house from the little income that we get from quarrying."

"The biggest hardship that I have faced in life is when my wife passed on and left me with me children to take care of. Life hasn't been easy for me because I have to perform other motherly duties."

"The biggest hardship that I face in my life is in terms of school fees for my kids as my income is very low and my kid has been sent home because she has not paid Ksh. 375 of which I am not able to raise at the moment. My husband also went back to school so that he can finish secondary school so I am left to serve as the breadwinner for the entire family."

"The achievement I am proudest of is that I am always hardworking and at my age I am still ploughing my farm so that I can feed my family without depending on others."

"The achievement that I am proudest of is that we have been able to grow vegetable like kales and sold the harvest which has enabled our kids to remain in school up to today."

"The achievement I am proudest of is that I have managed to do casual labor in the quarry where stones are being harvested and managed to pay school fees for my kids and one of my children went up to college using my sweat and now he is working."

"The biggest hardship we face is the need to build a house. Our income sources are very limited and we have not been able to build a new bigger house."

"My proudest achievement is that I struggled to build my house after my husband's death. At the time of his death I had a grass thatched house but today I have an iron roof house."

"My proudest achievement is that I have stuck to my marriage. My husband left home seventeen years ago and I have not gone away."