I am now a poultry farmer. The business has been doing well. It has been helping me a lot in meeting most of my family's daily needs. It is what I have been using to buy food and at times pay school fees for my kids. Most people in this village love eggs. This is the product that has the highest sale so far. Nowadays I don't strain so much like I used to do before I started this business.

My additional goal is to add one more heifer to the two that I already have. With the earnings which I will be receiving from my business put together with the transfers which I will be receiving from Give Directly would enable me to buy one in the next two months. I am happy that I got to earn a reasonable amount from my business which helps me taking care of my daily expenditure. We no longer spend much daily because some we at times eat the eggs or the chicken.

In May, I managed to buy a secondhand shaving machine and barbershop mirror. Now am confidence when I got two machines. I can now work better and be more efficient, whenever I have a mechanical breakdown in one of the machines I can still use the other instead of closing the shop like I used to do before when I only had one machine. Now I can alternate the machines, especially whenever there is a lot of work to do, I can easily switch them. They rarely overheat because they are now two. Initially, I would earn KES 3000 a month but now am happy that my earnings have double to KES 6000 a month.

My friend and I were planning to plant beans. He has a piece of land which is fertile and this crop would do well if all the necessary inputs are used. Since that land has been idle for a while we thought of trying this idea and earn something out of it. This is a great opportunity for us to invest our income. God willing, if everything goes well we will use the profits from the business to start other income-generating activities

Now I got two sources of income which is poultry farming and a barbershop. With these two, I no longer seek other casual jobs. In the morning I spent some time back at home taking care of my poultry cleaning there house and feeding them. During afternoons, I go to the barbershop. Now I am happy being self-employed.

My new goal is to buy two young bulls, I intend to raise these animals so that I can use them for ploughing. This would ease my farming and reduce the cost of production. I can also use the same to plough other people's farms at a fee. This would act as an alternative source of income.

The difference in my life in the last four months is the income which I earn from the sale of eggs. Before I didn't know that poultry farming was rewarding as such. Until recently when I gave it a test and it pretty works well for me. Now I got two sources of income which is the barbershop and poultry farming. Now I get to earn money which is sufficient to cater to my needs and left with some which I save.

I believe within six months I would have saved enough money with the aim of buying a dairy cow. We are now spending a lot of money buying milk for domestic use. When we get our own cow, we would no longer buy milk rather the surplus would be selling to get more income.

Having a house of my own is a dream that has come true thanks to GiveDirectly. I built a new house for myself and I live in it, alone, with a lot of conveniences. I also own a cow that will soon be calving and begin to give me an income from milk. This will be an additional source to my barbershop. All these are possible because I am receiving these cash transfers from GiveDirectly. I have a stable economic future that is full of growth opportunities.I will grow to become a respectedand a reliable member of society and a great entrepreneur.

In the next four months, I intend to build a poultry house and restart rearing chicken. I sold all that I had while I was building my house. The house construction required a lot of resources hence I had to dell every property that I had. Restarting the poultry system will revive my constant source of income.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have a house of my own. Initially, I used to go sleep over in my neighbor's house when my brother got married. Every nightfall came with a lot of discomforts and made me feel like a beggar. It was so bad for me to be asking for sleeping space in other peoples houses so I decided to build one as soon as I started receiving these transfers. I am so happy am so at ease to be having my ow home.

I the next six months, I will have increased the number of cows that i own. I wil buy yound ones and keep them on my farm. This is effortss towards being a milk producer which will majke a good souxce odf stable income to me.

My income has greatly increased. I get about 100 eggs per week from the chicken I bought using this transfers.

My new goal is to build a house.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I am hopeful for a better income in the coming days. I planted beans that are doing so well on half an acre piece of land. unlike before when I had to collaborate with an outsider to plant some crop. But today am a proud owner of a bean farm.

I expect my life to have changed a lot because I will be leaving in a decent house.This is the most important goal in my life right now.

I have a new goal to build my house.i dint have a plan for this before i started receiving this money.

I have increased work to do.I have started participating in a table banking group to save .i now have savings

In the next six months i will have a new house.since i will be having a good income.I will grow my flock of sheep.i will then plan to get married soon after.

The biggest difference in my daily is that i have completed my barbershop design by installing the mirror i really wanted.i now have more customers daily.this has increased my income.