"My father who was the sole provider died when my siblings and I were very young, it became so hard for my mother to provide basic needs to us. Sometimes I was forced to do casual work at a tender age so that I can get cash to buy food for my siblings, that was a great challenge to me."

"My biggest hardship is lack of money to afford my household's basic needs."

"Receiving this money means buying oxen and ox plough to facilitate farming. This will provide additional income for my family."

"Receiving this money means I Will be able to better my sleeping house, pay school fees for my grandchildren and pay medical bills."

"The biggest hardship i am faced with is having to live in a water loged area. Water even enters inside the house."

"The biggest hardship I have in my life is when the Maize Lethal Necrosis disease affected the maize in my farm leading to poor harvests and therefore there was no enough food for my family. "

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is when my children joined secondary school and I was not able to pay school fees for them. "

"The achievement am proudest of taking a loan from a microfinance institution,using the money to cultivate and plant vegetables and when i sold them i was able to repay the loan and also buy a dairy cow"

"The achievement I am proudest of is educating my children.With the little money i get from my teaching job,it was not easy to fund their secondary and University education but i have managed to do it.This makes me proud"

"The achievement that I am proudest of is purchasing a piece of land.When i got married,there was only half an acre of land for my family to live in.With a lot of hardwork and savings from the little money that the small farm produced,I managed to buy an acre of land."