"My proudest achievement is that I have managed to buy five goats. I managed to do this from the savings that I made from the sale of charcoal."

"The biggest hardship that I have faced in life is when I became sick and bedridden. I could not do farming that year and that made me become a victim of hunger. I had to depend on well wishers and neighbours for food."

"The biggest hardship that I have faced in life is that I have been suffering from Asthma and it has hindered me from doing much work. This has reduced my productivity in terms of doing work that can enable me get income."

"The achievement I am proudest of is that I have been able to take my children to school from kindergarten to college with cash from bursaries."

"The achievement I am proudest of is that we have been able to build our own house as we used to stay at the market centre before but now we have our own house that we built using cash from my husband's masonry work."

"The achievement I am proudest of is that my husband died while we were still a young couple and we used to stay in a grass thatched house by then and fortunately I was able to build a iron roofed house through the small business that I do."

"I am proudest of struggling to educate my eldest son who earned his bachelor's degree in Economics."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in life is lack of sufficient finances to support my large family. I have adopted six children and I lack proper source of income."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is poor health. I have been suffering stomach pains for four years now and that makes my life very unbearable."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is lack of sufficient funds to adequately feed my family."