"While I was still at home early that faithful morning, I heard some of the town people rejoicing and shouting that they have received transfer from GiveDirectly. I immediately ran in search of network to check my phone. Suddenly, I saw a text from GD stating that I had received transfer as well. Hence, I decided to set up my frozen food (chicken, pig foot, pig tail etc..)business and also rebuild my kitchen that was destroyed by storm few days ago."

"Before receiving the second transfer, I had already planned how I was going to utilize it. While accomplishing my set plans for the second transfer, I developed another goal that I desire to accomplish once I get some money. I aim to buy more goats and add some chicken. I prefer goats over cows because goats are drought resistant compared to cows and also they have ready markets."

"My new goal is to build a chicken house and to place a wire mesh all around our compound to restrain the chickens from going to other people's farms and destroying crops. I want to do so because I have a plan to buy more chickens and rear them. I have ten of them and I have seen how beneficial they are. I usually sell the eggs and the money that I get I usually use in buying small household items such as salt, soap, and tea leaves. I want to rear more chickens because I am planning to hatch chicks and be selling them to get more money that will enable me to pay school fees for my three children comfortably."

"I am a lab technician earning 19,000 KES per month. Being a breadwinner, this monthly income is not enough to take care of all the family responsibilities. I had started chicken farming as a side hustle so that I can raise money to renovate my house. However, this has not been the case because of the bird flu that attacked them and caused their lives. I was hurt very much looking at how much I spent to start the project and losing half of it in a month. These transfers will help me to refurbish the house as I had planned and also expand the chicken business. My wife and I had plans of starting a few projects but lack of money did not allow us to achieve this. The transfers are coming at the right time when I needed a financial boost and since I want to make sure that my family lives in a conducive environment I plan to spend 55,000 KES on renovating the house and save the remaining amount as we plan on what to do next."

"In the past, I was practicing poultry keeping but I had to stop when a strange disease invaded my farm and killed all the chicken. I therefore have plans of starting the poultry project once again. How I plan to do this is that I will save up from my small business enough to buy an icubator worth KES 50000 that can hatch up to 50 chicken at a go. This is a project that is so desr to me and that which will help me pay school fees much more easily in the near future as well as meet other family needs that may come up. I am a mother of two and my desire is to see that my children get the best education possible."

"My new goal is to buy more chickens and a wire mesh for fencing the compound to keep the chicken from going to the farm and feeding on my vegetables. I have a few chickens that I am rearing and they have been of great help to me. I usually sell the eggs and the money from the sales I use in buying essential household items such as sugar, soap, tea leaves, salt, etc. I thus would like to increase the number of chickens that I am rearing so that I can make more income."

"When I received the transfers, my major challenge was buying a liter of milk each day. This is because as a single mum of three I normally rely on casual labor for food. I, therefore, spent KES 32,000 on a dairy cow which has reduced milk expenses. Before, I used to buy half a liter each day for KES 25 after getting KES 200 from casual labor. At times we used to take black tea when there was no casual labor. Additionally, I spent KES 7,200 on two bags of maize of which the remainder can sustain us for the next month. This is because my children are still young therefore do not eat much. Similarly, I spent KES 3, 500 on durable cooking pots and household utensils. This is because I only had a few. I also bought KES 3000 on 10 chicken layers This will help in supplementing household expenses. In addition, I also invested KES 1,300 in merry-go-round monthly contributions. I also bought the latest clothing fashion for KES 8,000 because earlier we could only afford second-hand clothes. Lastly, I bought a 210 liters water container at KES 1,500. This has helped in the storage of rainwater and therefore I seldom go to the river."

"A human being cannot live without water for both domestic and other uses. I am a farmer , keeping both indegenous goats and chicken. My animals sometimes suffer from thirsty because I do not have some money to hire a motorcycle operator to bring water. This problem of water shortage has persisted to be the greatest challenge in my house."

"We have been taking meals on the ground for lacking chairs and a table. It has been always hectic as we are faced by disturbance from chicken and ducks making it impossible to enjoy meals. A month ago, we took four chairs and a plastic table on credit. Though we are faced with a loan, the joy that comes with taking meals without stress is unmeasurable."

"I used almost KES 10000 to help in building a chicken house and used another KES 20000 to buy a dairy cow. The remaining amopunt of money was used to buy food and clothes for my family and we are so excited that we were able to accomplish all these with the money that we received. My two children have their future secured through the investments that we made. In future we plan to buy a piece of land that will enable us practice agriculture that gives more returns and thus better living standards for our family."