"My proudest achievement was when my hairdressing business was doing fine that I could be able to put meals on the table but ever since thieves broke and stole my things I came down" (Country: Kenya)

"I have no stable source of income and l am also widowed." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship that I face in my life is that my wife is sick and getting cash to take her to the hospital is not easy as I am not able to raise the medical bills that may accumulate." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship that I face is that as a farmer, accessing market for my produce is a challenge making my produce to get spoilt when I harvest them. My farm is also located next to a river so when it rains heavily, my farm gets flooded and the crops" (Country: Kenya)

"The achievement I am proudest of is that my husband died and left me with young kids who I have struggled to see them get good education till secondary school." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship that we face in our life is that we do not have any form of employment and getting cash to buy food at times is a problem. At times I am forced to look for some casual work when our farmland that we solely depend on cannot provide foo" (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship I face currently is that we are not financially stable hence its not easy to buy food and when someone falls ill in the family, getting cash for treatment is hard." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship was growing up with no one to support me or take care of my needs." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship is that l have been ailing a lot since my children died and left me with my grand children and no one to support us." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship was when I was sick and had to be operated but lack of money made it hard" (Country: Kenya)