"The biggest hardship I face right now is that my husband currently has no source of income and thus I am the only breadwinner, this makes it difficult to take care of my family's basic needs and also pay school fees for my children." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship I face currently is lack of enough money to pay school fees for my children, I am currently out of work and my husband, who is the sole breadwinner, often gets very little money from his motorcycle taxi." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship I have is lack any proper jobs in this village, this make it difficult for me to feed and clothe my seven children." (Country: Kenya)

"The achievement that I am proudest of is having worked as a house help, I was able to assist my family sustain themselves." (Country: Kenya)

"The achievement that I am proudest of is having built my house, this is because when my spouse died, my house burnt down but I managed to make sisal, sell them and build this house." (Country: Kenya)

"The achievement that I am proudest is having educated my boy up to college, this is because I managed to do this by working in a sand quarry and it was difficult work." (Country: Kenya)

"The achievement I am proudest of is that my husband died and left me in his father's home but I managed to pick my self up and saved some money that I was being paid at my work place and built the house and home that I currently stay in." (Country: Kenya)

"The achievement I am proudest of is that when my husband died he left me in a small house but I managed to build a bigger one that I currently stay in and I have been able to take my children to school up to secondary school level where my first born is now in and the other is joining form one." (Country: Kenya)

"The biggest hardship that I face in my life is that getting money is not easy with regard to my business of selling fish as fish stock has gone down and I get very little from it while I am being overburdened by school fees." (Country: Kenya)

"The proudest achievement is that I have managed to go to secondary as school by doing small jobs and paying for my fees." (Country: Kenya)