"My proudest achievement has been taking care of my children,without anyone's support."

"I have a family of my own and a roof over my head"

"The proudest achievement is that through farming I am able to feed my family well."

"My proudest achievement was switching from a leaking grass thatched house to a metal roofed house and I am happy that I'm not being rained on anymore and that this house will protect me from all odds."

"My proudest achievement is that I have been able to build a house for my family. The first house which I used to live in was swept away with floods. I managed to do this through the little money that I got from farming."

"The biggest hardship that we have faced in life is that we don't have a stable source of income to support our family. We depend on farming as our major source of income although it is not much productive being that we live in a semi arid area."

"The biggest hardship that I have faced in life is scarcity of water. I live in a water - stress area whereby we have to go for long distances to fetch water."

"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 biggest hardship that I face in my life is that my income is unstable and this makes life difficult to me as you cannot manage to take care of the family without cash and I am not able to raise my kids properly by affording to pay school fees for them at the required time."