Marion is a 49 year old mother of two whose family generates its income from farming fruits and vegetables, growing and harvesting tea, two dairy cows, two chickens, and several goats, as well as from Marion’s small businesses of four years selling groceries and clothing from a stall in a building she rents monthly in the center of her small town outside Limuru. Marion has one daughter in primary school and another who just graduated university. She hopes to soon find business picking up enough that she can afford to save with the local women’s sacco and procure a loan there with which she can invest anew in her small business in town. Marion’s goals are straightforward: “To work hard and go on to a higher height.” Yet her aspirations are also social. Marion is a profoundly relational kind of independent. “If I don’t have my children, all this work would be for what? I do it to have a family.”