"The biggest hardship that I have faced in life is when floods destroyed and swept my house. I had to start from zero to build another house although it was much expensive for me as a widow."

"Our proudest achievement is that we have been able to build iron roofed house. We used to stay in a leaking grass thatched house. We saved money for several months and bought iron sheets and other building materials which we used to build our house."

"My proudest achievement is that I have managed to save the little money that I get and started a small retail shop which I hope to expand in future."

"The biggest hardship that we have faced in life is lack of a stable source of income. We are just peasant farmers and the little harvest we get is turned into cash and used to pay school fees. This therefore leaves us without enough to eat."

"The biggest hardship is not having proper land to cultivate,sickness is also a problem since we have no money for treatment."

"The achievement that I am proudest of is that when I used to work in Kenya Shell company,I managed to apply for a pump and opened a koresene shop in Nakuru but unfortunately 2007 skirmishes made me to move back to my ancestral home."

"The biggest hardship that I face in my life is that my husband has no other source of income and at times I am forced to play the role of breadwinner as when I don't work we can even go to bed hungry."

"The achievement that I am proudest of is that I have been able to take my first born son to school till he finshed secondary school using cash that I have saved from the sale of my farm harvest."

"The achievement that I am proudest of is that we have been able to maintain our farm even though it is small thereby enabling us to support our family."

"The biggest hardship that I face in my life is in terms of getting school fees for my kids as one of them was forced to repeat class due to lack of school fees."