"The biggest hardship that I have faced in life is lack of a stable source of income to support my family. Sometimes we spend a day without having a meal."

"The biggest hardship that I face right now is lack of a sustainable source of income, casual jobs are hard to come by, therefore I have to borrow money from others,so very often I am indebted to very many people and I fear that they may attach my property"

"My proudest achievement is having planted tomatoes and managed to get a bumper harvest, I then sold the tomatoes and used the money to build my current house."

"My proudest achievement is having planted maize in my farm and after harvesting the produce and selling them, I was able to buy materials which I used to build my current 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 biggest hardship is that I lack enough farm equipments that can enable me plough my farm inorder to produce food."

"I am proudest of owning five sheeps because I can sell some in future inorder to raise money to pay school fees."

"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."