"The biggest hardship I face is the burden of school fees and the other daily basic needs." (Country: Kenya)

"The achievement am proudest of is that I own a house. Looking back, we rented a house at the market centre because were homeless." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship that I face right now is lack of enough money to pay school fees for all my children, my only source of income is my motorcycle taxi, but this can hardly cater for all their basic needs, in fact some of them may drop out of school because they have fee arrears." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship that I face right now is lack of enough money to build a house for myself. My spouse chased me away from home and ever since I have been living in my sister in law's house, this is humiliating and dehumanising as she is my late brother's wife and I should be the one taking care of her." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship that I face is that I lack money to pay rent on a monthly basis because I don't have a proper source of income." (Country: Kenya)

"My proudest achievement is that l struggled and bought some seats with my own savings and I'm happy that I can now host visitors without any fear." (Country: Kenya)

"My proudest achievement is that l have a family and I also own and operate my own business since it's my main source of livelihood." (Country: Kenya)

"My proudest achievement has been being able to raise my children and educate them single handedly." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship that we have faced in life is that we don't have a reliable source of income. We only depend on quarrying as a source of livelihood." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship that we have faced in life is that we have huge fee arrears because we don't have a stable source of income. We have three children in high school." (Country: Kenya)