"My proudest achievement is having had a grocery store and I was able to save my profits. I then used the money to buy household items." (Country: Kenya)

"My proudest achievement is having worked in various farms and saved my earnings I was then able to buy some livestock." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship I have is lack of sustainable income, this therefore means making ends meet is a problem." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship I face currently in my life is to fend for my family, I do not have proper source of income other than doing odd jobs for others here in the village." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship is that when my husband passed away I was inherited according to the luo customs and the man infected me with HIV,so am living a very hard life,my husband was clean when he passed away." (Country: Kenya)

"The proudest achievement is that we have lived for long with each other,through many challenges." (Country: Kenya)

"The proudest achievement was being able to depend on myself after loosing my husband." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship is that I have not been well health wise and paying school fees for my children is quite a challenge" (Country: Kenya)

"My proudest achievement is that I have a family and roof over my head." (Country: Kenya)

"The proudest achievement had been taking our children to school." (Country: Kenya)