"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."

"The biggest hardship that I face right now is lack of enough money to pay school fees for my daughter who should be joining secondary school next year, I fear that she may have to defer her studies if I am unable to raise the required fees. "

"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."

"The biggest hardship that I face right now is lack of a sustainable source of income for myself, this means that my family often lacks basic needs like three nutritious meals a day. "

"The achievement we're proudest of is having been able to save money from farming and bought some chickens that have since multiply into many more."

"The achievement I'm proudest of is having been able to save money from farming and used it to build my current house.It was built using seven iron sheets,small but I'm proud to have built it."

"My proudest achievement is having toiled in my farm for very many years in order to ensure that I always get a bountiful harvest of maize and sweet potatoes. These harvests are very important because after selling the produce I have been able to educate my children."

"My proudest achievement is having started working in peoples farms as a casual worker and diligently saving my earnings. The first batch of savings that I had was used to buy a goat which late gave birth to kids. I later sold the offspring and bought a cow which gave birth to calves, after a while I sold the cattle and bought building materials which I used to build my current house. "

"The biggest hardship we are facing in our life is the outstanding fee balances that our children have in school. "