"My proudest achievement is having worked as a broom maker and after selling the brooms I was able to buy a goat. "

"The biggest hardship that I face right now is lack of a sustainable source of income for myself and my spouse. My spouse is a polygamous man and thus I have a co-wife, maintaining two families is difficult for him and we often lack basic items like nutritious food."

"The biggest hardship that I face right now is lack of enough money to buy farm inputs like seeds and fertiliser, the planting season is almost over and if we cannot get finances to purchase the inputs, our farm will have to lie fallow thereby depriving us of a source of income. "

"We're proud for having received good harvest last season and used the cash after selling some of the produce in paying school fees for our child in secondary school."

"My proudest achievement is having started a small business selling onions in kisumu town, I was thus able to educate my children with proceeds from the sale of onions until they managed to have their own families."

"The biggest hardship I'm facing currently is on making ends meet and on paying school fees for my children,I depend on farming for livelihood and in some cases we get very little harvest to sustain us."

"My proudest achievement is having been a successful farmer, I plant sweet potatoes and maize and I usually get a bumper harvest. I have even managed to buy a public address system with money I got after selling my farm produce, this public address system usually earns me some income whenever I hire it out to various people holding events. "

"My biggest hardship is on making ends meet,I have no other sources of income other than farming and being a widow makes it even more difficult to fend for my family."

"My proudest achievement is having worked in my farm for many years and managed to buy a ploughing machine, some cows and built my house with funds I got after selling maize and sweet potatoes that I harvested. "

"The biggest hardship we face now is on paying college fees for our first born,after finishing his eighth grade we have not been able to educate him further due to lack of finances."