"The achievement am proudest of is the small business I ran. I sale rice. I am proud because it keeps me busy and gives me some income. Through this I am able to provide financial support to my husband." (Country: Kenya)

"The proudest achievement is that I have been able to support my family through farming since my husband died." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship is paying school fees for our siblings since we have no proper jobs and our parents are not there to help them." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship that I face in my life is that we don't have a piece of land that we can use in planting crops hence we are forced to hire people's farms which is expensive for us to manage." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship is raising my family since I don't have a proper job we only live from hand to mouth." (Country: Kenya)

"The achievement that I am proudest of is that we were able to build our house using savings that we had accumulated from the small business of shopkeeping that I do and the motorcycle business of my husband." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship that I face right now is lack of a sustainable source of income for my husband, his motorcycle taxi business is not very profitable and sometimes it means that our family has survive on only essential food items which may not be very nutritious." (Country: Kenya)

"My proudest achievement is having been able to finally have my own homestead. In our culture having one's own homestead is a status symbol and those living in their parent's homesteads are looked down upon. Thus nowadays I can proudly walk in our village." (Country: Kenya)

"My proudest achievement is having worked at at a stone quarry crushing and breaking large pieces of stone into small chips and after some years of saving I was able to buy three goats." (Country: Kenya)

"My proudest achievement is having saved quite a substantial amount of money that I get from my motorcycle taxi and these savings have helped quite a lot whenever my family needs anything or an unexpected expense arises." (Country: Kenya)