"The achievement I am proudest of is that I have been able to take care of my kids even after the death of my husband and managed to pay for them school fees through struggle."

"The biggest hardship I face in life is lack of sufficient finances to meet all my basic needs because I have no reliable source of income."

"The biggest hardship that I have faced is I have been left alone,I have buried almost all of my children and my body has a lot of pain(she is not well health wise)."

"The proudest achievement I have is that I bought a goat and am also keeping some chicken which I bought through selling firewood."

"The proudest achievement is that since my husband died I have been able to sell "mandazi"(doughnuts) which has enabled me to build the house am living in and I have also managed to pay school fees for my children."

"The proudest achievement is that I have a house and am taking care of my children on my own."

"My proudest achievement is having struggled and saved most of the profits that I used to get when I had a small business and eventually managed to educate my children some of whom are now in college and others are you secondary schools and I am still educating them."

"My proudest achievement is that I joined a women's support group and through the table banking we had in our group, I was able to save enough money until I finally built my current house."

"The biggest hardship that I face currently is that I lost my husband a long time ago and I had to stop working in order to come to the village and and stay with my mother in law, this means that I do not have any source of income and life is difficult."

"My proudest achievement is having worked in a factory making clothes and I was able to save my earnings, these I then used to educate my children."