"The biggest hardship I have faced in life is lack of equipment to do horticulture. I realized a great loss last year due to extensive drought. I was unable to irrigate my vegetable farm. " (Campaign: UBI)

"The biggest hardship I have faced in life is lack of parental care. My parents died when I was still a young girl and was forced to drop out of school and get married as there was nobody to take up responsibility of raising me up." (Campaign: UBI)

"My biggest hardship is raising school fees and feeding my grandchildren who I have been taking of since the death of their parents." (Campaign: UBI)

"The biggest hardship I have faced in life was a constant struggle to provide for my brother and I at a tender age since I grew up as an orphan with no one to turn to for an assistance, a situation that forced me to drop out of school at class four." (Campaign: UBI)

"The achievement I am proudest of in life, was my ability as a single mother, to enrol my daughter to a better post-kindergarten school with the little income I got while working as a househelp. " (Campaign: UBI)

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life,was back in January of 2015,I had just lost my husband in the road accident." (Campaign: UBI)

"The achievement that i am most proud of is having been able to build my own semi permanent house that i am currently living in from the money that i had managed to save through selling of my farm produce." (Campaign: UBI)

"The biggest hardship that i have faced was that of struggling with sickness.For seven years i was living with tuberculosis and the cost of seeking for medication left me totally bankrupt to the extent that i could not even provide for my family's basic needs and this pained me a lot. " (Campaign: UBI)

"The achievement I'm proudest about is saving objectively to buy furniture. Before my household had no chairs, I was laughed at. My husband and I started a saving scheme that enabled us purchase chairs, I no longer sit on the floor. " (Campaign: UBI)

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is an unreliable source of income which has made me struggle to meet my family's basic needs. Being a widow and a mother of six children has not been easy and sometimes it breaks my heart seeing my little children going without a meal for a day. " (Campaign: UBI)