"My proudest achievement is having a home and a family. This has come when everybody thought I could not raise a family because I was an alcoholic. "

"My biggest hardship is lack of enough income to achieve both family and personal development. My younger son is cronically ill and needs medication constantly which is costly."

"My biggest hardship is lack of enough income and food to sustain my family. The last two years my farm harvest has dropped due to drought and balancing between providing basic needs for my family and paying school fees has not been easy"

"The achievement I am proudest of is that I managed to buy a cupboard plus the plates inside it through selling of the produce that I got from the farm. "

"The biggest hardship I am facing in life is lack of proper skills to bargain for better payments from casual labor services that I offer. I get little payments that cannot enable me support my siblings."

"The biggest hardship I am facing currently is lack of enough land for farming since that is my main source of income."

"My proudest achievement is when I got a sponsor to facilitate my continuity with studies since I was not able to proceed to high school due to lack of fees."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in life is lack of finances to sustain my family due to high cost of living and low income from my business."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life was educating my children. Out of nine, I have managed to see four through secondary schools. Lack of an income has been a major challenge to ensuring that all my children get secondary education. After my husband's death things seem to have gotten much worse."

"The achievement am proudest of was being able to go through high school.My parents died while I was young and sometimes I had to do manual jobs to pay fees."