"My biggest hardship is meeting the demands of my family especially on food. My business collapsed and I don't have a steady income to help me feed my family well."

"My proudest achievement in life was passing class eight exam and becoming one of the few girls that were able to join secondary school. I feel so motivated in working hard enough and making it to university."

"My proudest achievement in life is buying a goat from meager earnings from casual work. I hope to sell it in future and buy a plane as one of the tools I need to start my carpentry work. "

"The biggest hardship I have faced in life is lack of parental care. My parents died when I was still a young girl and was forced to drop out of school and get married as there was nobody to take up responsibility of raising me up."

"My biggest hardship is raising school fees and feeding my grandchildren who I have been taking of since the death of their parents."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in life was a constant struggle to provide for my brother and I at a tender age since I grew up as an orphan with no one to turn to for an assistance, a situation that forced me to drop out of school at class four."

"The biggest hardship I had faced in life was the difficulty in raising up my daughter as a single mother. My boyfriend disowned me immediately I got pregnant. I was not only stressed then, but was also subjected to hard labour in order to earn a living. "

"My greatest achievement I am most proud of is my business which I started 2years ago,am able to improve my business and save little I get from my customers."

"The biggest hardship that i am facing is that of dealing with sickness.Over along period of time,i have been struggling with a rare medical condition that causes one of my legs to swell extremely.I have spent so much money seeking for medication but unfortunately doctors have not been able to detect the real ailment.The worst part is that the pain just keeps on becoming unbearable by each passing day. "

"The achievement that i am most proud of was being able to build my own house that is spacious enough to accommodate my large family of eight comfortably and also being able to educate most of my children despite not having a very stable source of income."