"My proudest achievement is that I have worked hard and built my house. I now have a place to rest when I come from work."

"My proudest achievement is that I am currently living in my own home. I have been living in my parents home for quite long and tradition requires that we move when we have become of age."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in life is lack of sufficient finances to feed, educate and meet other financial needs of my family because we have no proper source of income and our family is large."

"The achievement I am proudest of is that in the past we used to stay in a rental house in Rongai town and we managed to save cash that we were getting from working in stone quarries that enabled us to come back home and build our own home on our land."

"My biggest hardship has been to raise money that can enable me build my own house."

"My biggest hardship is lack of a reliable source of income. My income is too low and sometimes it's not easy for me to raise school fees for my children."

"The biggest hardship I face is lack of enough food, since we did not plant last season. We have to buy food."

"The biggest hardship I face is the need to build a house. I live in a single roomed tin walled house, which during the day is burning hot and too cold at night."

"The biggest hardship I face is the burden of school fees. I live with orphans from the larger extended family."

"The achievement am proudest of is educating my cousin through high school. He is like a brother to me, since his parents are not able I took the initiative to help out."