"My proudest achievement is having worked as a motorcycle taxi driver and managed to establish my own homestead with money that I save daily."

"The biggest hardship that I face right now is lack of enough land on which to establish my own homestead. My father's piece of land is very small and yet we are very many siblings, this means that even if we divide up the piece of land, we will end up with uneconomical pieces, which will not be profitable when tilled."

"My proudest achievement is having joined a women's support group and after saving for a while with other group members I was able to buy some sheep and a cow."

"The biggest hardship that I face right now is lack of enough money to pay school fees for my siblings who rely on me. My parents died a long time ago and I have lived with them ever since, at times they are sent away from school because of fee arrears."

"The biggest hardship that I face in my life is that my income is very low and this at times makes it difficult for me to raise school fees for my children as they are usually sent home for fees making them to stay at home for almost a month."

"The biggest hardship that I face in my life is that currently it is raining and our stone quarry becomes dangerous during heavy rains and this makes me not to go to work hence I am not able to get money that I can support my family with."

"The biggest hardship we face is that we lack basic household items like beddings, furniture and utensils. The kids have to sleep on mats on the floor which may cause diseases like pneumonia."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in life is lack of funds to enable me build a bigger house."

"The biggest hardship that we have faced in life is that we don't have a stable source of income which can enable us to pay school fees. We only depend on subsistence farming as a source of livelihood."

"Our proudest achievement is that we have a house that we built with our income from farming."