"The biggest hardship that I face right now is lack of enough money to be able to build a better house. My current house is only one roomed and at the pace my kids are growing up they will soon need a bigger house."

"I plan to spend my upcoming lumpsum payment on buying a cows to pay dowry to my late son’s wife. This will help me keep custody of my grandchildren. I am also planning to build a water tank to safely keep water. I have nothing to help me hold water in my house. I will also repair my house."

"My proudest achievement is that l was able to move from a rental house to a house that I built. I am proud because I stay in my own house and that I nolonger pay rent."

"My biggest hardship is how to raise money that can enable me send my children to school and that can also cater for their upkeep."

"My biggest hardship is that my income is too little to support my family. This is because in a day,I can make 100 KSH out of my fishing business and this is the amount I use for budgeting hence at times I even find it difficult to feed my children properly."

"I am proudest of owning a home that will be inherited by my son's in future when I die."

"The biggest hardship that I have faced in life is when I lost the job we I had. I had to look for other ways of earning a living like farming and charcoal making. This hasn't been reliable and so life has been difficult at times."

"The biggest hardship that we have faced in life is that we have been struggling to plough our farms because we don't have oxen plough. We normally depend on the ones for hire but they are expensive. This inhibits our capacity to get good harvest."

"The biggest hardship that we have faced in life is lack of a stable source of income to sustain the family."

"The biggest hardship that we have faced in life is lack of a stable source of income to support my family. We currently depend on agriculture although we stay in a semi arid area which isn't productive."