"My biggest hardship is that I have my son who is not well and am the one supporting him and I have no one to support me. He is a grown man and has no employment." (Country: Kenya)

"The proudest achievement was when I was selling small house items,I would buy a few things that were needed in the house and we ate well." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship is that we have no permanent job and we don't have our own land where we can build." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship I have right now is that my wife died and left me with three young children, I therefore have to look after them and also go fishing in the lake, this means I sometimes leave them in the homestead alone. This is not safe for them but there is nothing I can do about it." (Country: Kenya)

"My proudest achievement is having tilled my farm and managed to get a good harvest, the money from selling the produce was quite a lot, I even managed to buy three cows." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship I have is that in the village we have to do a lot of menial and hard labour jobs just to survive and at the end of it all the wages are minimal and barely cover living expenses." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship I have right now is that I was involved in a motorcycle accident recently and cannot do any work that generates income,so my family has to survive on the little money my spouse get from selling fish. This money is barely enough to support our family's needs and we often lack a lot of essential items in the house." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship I have is lack of enough money. We have more than ten children to take care of and this is a difficult task, some are frequently sent home from school due to lack of school fees." (Country: Kenya)

"My proudest achievement is having saved my income and my spouses income and finally bought a piece of land where we built our own homestead." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship we face currently is on paying some loan we took to build our house and on making ends meet on very small income." (Country: Kenya)