"The proudest achievement is that I have taken my children to school and they are almost clearing high school." (Country: Kenya)

"The proudest achievement is that I have built the house I am in and I have a few livestock." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship that I face right now is lack of enough money to be able to buy a piece of land and build my own house, ever since my spouse was chased away from home we have been renting a room at the shopping center, but our income is hardly enough to cater for our basic needs and pay rent, we might even be evicted by our landlord soon." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship that I face right now is lack of enough money to pay school fees for my children, my income is not sufficient to cater for all my children's school fees and I fear that they may drop out of school." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship that I face right now is ill health and lack of a sustainable source of income, I have a granddaughter who is supposed to join secondary school but I cannot raise the fees due to my illness and she might have to defer her studies." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship that I face right now is lack of a sustainable source of income, casual labour work is difficult to come by, this often means I have no income on certain days so my family is often forced to make do with one meal a day" (Country: Kenya)

"My proudest achievement is having joined a deposit taking micro finance bank and after saving with them, I was able to take a small loan which I used to purchase a motorcycle taxi." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship that I face right now is lack of enough money to enable me seek proper medical attention, my health is not very good and I fear that I may succumb to the various ailments afflicting me." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship that I face right now is lack of a sustainable source of income, my children often sleep without eating anything but I am unable to do anything about it." (Country: Kenya)

"My proudest achievement is having saved money that I earned while doing odd jobs and managed to educate my daughter up to college, where she is performing quite well." (Country: Kenya)