Being enrolled in GiveDirectly's program is the beginning of greater success in my life. The most recent transfer helped me to purchase 20 chicks which are currently doing well. From these, I shall establish a poultry business, what I had been dreaming to do in my lifetime. The poultry venture will be beneficial in terms of availing for me eggs. I shall also be able to sell fully grown hens in order to get additional cash to support my family.

I personally think that this organization is giving us the people with very humble backgrounds a chance to grow especially financially by giving us an opportunity to invest in ourselves and our families in ways that we are very grateful because we very much have the ambition to develop but most of us just lacked the means but now our future is looking bright.

When the received the transfers, just like the previous ones that I received I put the money away in my savings account because I wanted to start my own chicken business the following year which I previously had during the previous year but deteriorated due to the pandemic and since no one was buying but at the time it made me lots of profit. So I took the KES 3,000 and put it in my savings account as I waited for more so that it could accumulate and I would buy the poultry and the feed.

I was very much excited because I could finally help salvage my business before it all went down the drain. The poultry business came in handy for me and my family during our financial strains and making sure it prospers is a very big deal to me and my family because even my children earn something from it. Also I really appreciate the fact that this program enables us to make decisions on what primarily matters most to us and does not put any prohibitions to the funds therefore enabling us to pick and choose appropriately and according to our necessities.

The ability to bring back life to my business when I had almost lost all hope for it ever getting revived and this means a lot to me because I can take care of my family bills including medication and even school for my three kids since one is in college, the other in highschool and the last one in primary.

Well I did manage to get the transfers but I decided to save the money and let it accumulate because I have plans to grow my business of selling chicken. I came to this decision because before Covid-19 happened I had almost two hundred chicken that I normally sold for three hundred and fifty kenyan shillings in my barn but with the pandemic so many things were shut down and the so many families were affected including mine because people stopped buying from me. In turn a lot of the poultry passed on since at the time I also could not afford the chicken feed and I was left with fifty chicken instead. So that is how I came to the decision that I would save the money and buy twenty chicks which would cost me almost one thousand six hundred shillings and ensure my business can be sustainable again.