"We have four goats. With time, I would like to add more as well as chicken. I will use this money to keep adding one of the two per transfer and what remains, we shall use it to buy food. This livestock will give us some financial freedom and that would be welcome."

"I have a small poultry project that I ran in my home. I am a businesswoman who earns a living by selling vegetables in the village market. My husband is a casual laborer who earns a living by building other people’s houses, fetching water, and farming on other people’s land. The little I earn from my business is used to buy food and pay school fees for my two children. Sometimes I have no money left to buy feeds for the chicken I rear. So when I received my transfer, I spent KES 1500 on buying growers' mash for the chicken. I gave priority to buying the feeds because I see this as an alternative source of income in the future that will help me earn some good income. Besides buying the animal feeds, I spent KES 1000 to buy food for the family after exhausting the food stocks in the house and had no money, and neither did my husband buy more food."

"The biggest challenge is that we are experiencing a bad economic times. Food prices have inflated yet I do not have a stable source of income. I normally depend on my chicken for eggs however they have not been productive due to a lack of feed. This situation has rendered me dependent on my children yet they have their own families to take care of and this has been bothering me."

"I am a mother of 6 children. 5 are already schooling. Raising their tuition fees is a nightmare for me. I am just a charcoal burner, making a negligible 1,000 KES a month. Being required to pay 15,000 KES after every 4 months, my little income cannot match up. I plan to venture into poultry farming business. I will use 10,000 KES to construct a poultry house, 10,000 KES to buy 100 chicks, and another 10,000 KES for chicken feed. In four months, the birds will have reached the market size. With a bird retailing at 600, I will be making 60,000 KES in four months. Putting into consideration the cost of production, I will be remaining with 30,000 KES as the profit, which is a very good amount to help me pay school fees for my children. I will keep doing this business because I have seen how beneficial it is through my neighbors."

"I have made some strides this year in terms of increasing my sources of income. I have bought 2 goats and 2 chicken which I believe in a few years time they will have multiplied. This achievement is the reason for my happiness."

"I used to run a business of chicken rearing. Due to lack of money I could not afford to protect them from disease outbreak through vaccination which required each chick to be immune boosted in every two weeks for two months. Though the business failed, it has been my desire to roll it back and receiving this cash will help me in doing so. I will save 2000KES every month for five months so that I buy 90kgs chicken feed and 20 chicken for a start up. The subsequent transfers will support me in increasing the number as well as for vaccination. I love the job for it is not energy draining and it can bring double profit within a short period of three months."

"I am planning to use KES 30,000 from the GiveDirectly transfers to renovate my house because the roof is leaking plus the walls have multiple cracks. I will later start a chicken selling business in the village given that recently, the demand has been high. I will use the profits from the business to educate my children especially those in primary school."

"Receiving this money means a decent and spacious house for my family. I currently do not own a house and I sleep in my mother in law's house. This has denied me peace for long and my plan is to build a two bedroom house for my family of four. This house will cost me KES 40,000. I will use the balance to start a chicken rearing business. The profits from the business will supplement our financial sources."

"The biggest difference that the transfer has brought into our lives is that we have had some peace of mind having paid off the land debt. We no longer owe anyone anything. I am also glad because with having built the chicken house, the chickens are now safe from predators. They no longer move around like before since they are fed from their house."

"From my transfer, I spent KES 2500 to buy a goat. As a young man, I have been longing to raise livestock. I had already begun the venture by buying 1 goat when I sold my chicken last year. I am also glad that with the first transfer, I was able to buy an additional goat, and currently, I own 3 goats. I am very optimistic that when they reproduce and increase in number, I shall be able to sell them to start up a shop business. From the business, I shall be able to raise the daily income for my family. Since we are a family of 4 and my mother is just but a peasant farmer, I opted to support her by buying foodstuff."