"The biggest hardship I face right now is lack of a sustainable source of income for myself. This often means my children school fees are not paid on time and they get sent away from school."

"My proudest achievement is having saved my little earnings in a women's group and managed to build my current house."

"The biggest hardship currently in our life is on paying school fees to our children and finding daily food for the family."

"The biggest hardship we are facing currently is finding ways to feed the family.The farm is not doing so well due to much sun which brings drought in the long run.We also own small piece of land that cannot allow large scale farming."

"The achievement we are proudest of is having been able to take our children to high school even though we never went to school ourselves,we believe in the power of education."

"My proudest achievement is having been able to build my current house through hardship and hard work."

"The biggest hardship I face currently in my life is on accessing clean water and the distance covered to get the water.We also find it hard to feed the family due to lack of proper source of income."

"My proudest achievement was that I was able to save some money in my account to cater for my children's school fees and upkeep."

"My proudest achievement is having struggled with farming and finally managed to pay my college fees, I finally graduated in 2011."

"My proudest achievement is having struggled and saved proceeds from my small business and I then used the money to build my house."