I am planning to start a poultry project in the next four months of my life. My current source of income is not enough to sustain me. I felt by starting this project I will boost my income. It is always safer when one has more than one source for efficiency and decent living. I will save for the four months and buy chicken. I have already constructed a chicken house and put everything in order.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I an always at peace and less worried. I was able to pay my children's school fees. This has been my biggest worry because I don't have a stable job. I used to strain a lot in order to pay school fees on time so that they don't miss classes. The transfers have also enabled me to meet my daily basic needs such as food. Before, I only depended on my tea farm. This source of income was not enough to cater for all my needs.

My expectation in the near future is to be able to improve our lifestyle. Their certain things we can't afford at the moment such as buying good clothes and eating a well-balanced diet. I can only achieve this by ensuring I am financially stable. I hope the poultry and the dairy project that I am planning to start will be successful help me achieve all my goals. I also don't want to let down my children. With these projects, I will be able to pay their school fees comfortably.

Now am happy I got an extra source of income which has enabled me to pay school fees for my child with less struggle. Before I would solely depend on farming and now part of the monthly transfer I get to pay school fees.

My new goal for the next four months is to save my next transfer to enable me to buy a heifer. I will keep the heifer and when it matures and gives birth I will get to sell milk and have some for domestic use. Again, the calves which the cow will have produce I will sell to earn money for paying school fees for my child.

In the last four months, I spent part of my monthly transfer to buy some chicken and as now I got ten of them. Now on a daily basis, I got to collect ten eggs a day which when I sell I earn KES 120. This amount is enough to cater for my daily expenses. The money which I would have spent on these items I usually save to pay school fees for my child as I no longer get worried on how to provide for the family. I can proudly say this has been the greatest difference in my life which exists with the aid which I received from GiveDirectly.

In the next six months, I would expect my life to change in that, I would have managed to buy a cow and the earings which I get from the sale of Green tea leaves I would spend on other family investment like poultry farming to earn me more cash to improve our living standards.

My daily life is currently different from how it was four months ago because my poultry farming has been productive. This has motivated me to save more and invest more in farming activities.

I have saved some money from the poultry income and I am planning to use it to invest in a passion fruit plantation. This is what I am yearning to start in the next four months.

The biggest difference in my daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer is that own a poultry farm. I used to ensure that I have bought four hens per month using the monthly transfers from Give Directly. I now own 25 hens and the money I get from their egg sales has really boosted my income. I have been saving some money out of it to invest in passion plantation. I have been a struggling to make ends meet for my family since I used to depend on motorcycling riding as source of income.. The money I used to get was too little and unsustainable. Thanks to Give Directly for chipping in to assist us.

I expect my life to change positively in the next six months. I am optimistic that I will have started planting the passion fruits. This will boost my income enabling me to provide best education to my children. In the next four years, I am planning in enrolling them to boarding school where they will have more time to study efficiently and perform well, since they will no longer have to spend too much time on the way walking for long distances to school and back .

My life is currently different because these transfers have boosted my tea leaves buying business.

I am planning to use the transfers to increase more tea leaves and farm inputs and pay school fees.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that these transfers have enabled me to increase my tea leaves buying business and pay school fees.

I expect to have bought a heifer and open a shop for my wife.