"I spent my money from my last transfer to start a business. For many years, I depended heavily on my farm, growing different crops for my use and sell in the market. Since the drought begun, I lost everything, including the harvest I was expecting during that time. Since then I have struggled to make end meet since I did not have a job. Recently, I started a small business where I sell different fish. The business has picked well and immediately after I received my fifth transfer; I opted to add more stock to into the business to boost my revenue. Besides adding more stock to my business, I also bought two chickens. Once these chickens multiply in numbers, it will be a splendid avenue for me to venture into poultry farming and earn an income from it too."

"The transfers motivated and materialized my long-term dream of poultry farming. For the past three months, I have solely used my transfers to support this venture. I bought six chicks worth KES 1500, chicken feed for KES 4000, and insecticides at KES 500. I saved the remaining money, KES 3000, which I aim to either channel towards a piece of land or a cow. I am immensely excited that the chicken project is progressing well and serving as a significant income source."

"Since I suffered a loss of the entire flock of chicken I was rearing to poultry disease, life has hit me hard. I was deprived of my only source of income, could no longer fend for myself, and constantly starved. Therefore, my priority when I received the transfer was buying two bales of maize flour worth KES 2200 as food. Also, I bought a chicken for KES 300 as I intend to dive back into poultry keeping. Additionally, I had earlier bought a goat worth KES 3000 using the transfers, which I am hoping will multiply to increase my income sources."

"I have a passion in poultry farming. My plan has always been to start a poultry unit since I got married 7 months ago. I really need a source of income to support my husband provide for my family. Every month I will be using 2,000 KES of the transfers to buy the chicken while the rest will go into buying food. My aim is rearing up to 100 chicken so that I can be a consistent supplier of eggs to the market within my locality."

"I have been running a food kiosk in the nearby town for the second year now. However, the increase in the price of food commodities in Kenya has affected my business and I no longer make handsome profits as I used to before. I am planning to diversify my financial sources so that I can support my family well. I want to start a dairy chicken rearing business which will cost an initial capital of KES 30,000. There is a ready market for chicken given that a member in my village normally takes chicken to a hotel in the nearby city. I will use a further KES20,000 to boost my food kiosk by diversifying the types of foods I sell. Doing all this will assure my family of reliable sources of income to sustain my family."

"Lack of employment has made me desire to get self,-employed. Out of the 400KES earned while working as a non routine casual labourer in house construction, I used to save 100 KES a day in order to raise 10 000 KES to start a poultry farming. Recently, I constructed a 3m by 5m structure. I was supposed to have 5000 KES to kick off the business but my pockets were drained by my firstborn son who was sitting for his national primary school examinations. Once in possession of my first three transfers, I will spend them in purchasing 100 chicks which will cost 5 000KES and a sack of chicken feed at 2000 KES and 1000 KES for poultry vaccines and boosters. I have trust in this income generating activity for in four months I am certain to raise a profit of about 20 000KES( with all factors made constant). This will boost my livelihood in unaccountable ways."

"I have a passion for agriculture, aside from agribusiness I also do poultry farming on a large scale. A few months ago, there was an outbreak of chicken disease that nearly killed all of them. This affected the egg and chicken meat produce which in turn affected the flow of money. I was devastated and never knew that I will recover from it. Receiving this money will however change that notion since it will enable me to boost the project again by buying more chicken and drugs to vaccinate them so that I do not face the same predicament again in the future."

"I recently broke my leg and find it hard to indulge in strenuous activities due to severe pains. Since my income sources are limited by this factor, am forced to heavily count on Give Directly money for livelihood. We are intensely struck by drought which makes us either walk two hours to fetch water or pay a motorcyclist to deliver the same within 30 minutes. So from the transfers, I spent KES 360 to secure and transport water from the pond to my home. Additionally, I used KES 1000 to buy food and KES 700 to buy two chickens for rearing. I also used KES 800 to pay off debts at a kiosk."

"I am happy that I was able to fence my compound using a wire mesh that I bought using part of the transfer. Because of this, my chicken no longer goes to destroy my neighbor's crops. Due to this, I have been relating well with my neighbors of late unlike before when they used to complain that I should sell my chickens if I am not able to look after them from going to other people's farms."

"I am a crop farmer who has heavily depended mostly on the farm for my survival. Since the commencement of the drought, I have been jobless, as the farms are no longer productive. It is for this reason that I ventured into poultry farming. I have spent my previous transfers in building a chicken shelter. When I received my fifth transfer, I spent KSH 1200 in buying some poles to complete building the shelter. Since I am jobless, I cannot buy food for my family and I have since in the beginning depended on the transfers to buy food for my family. I spent the remaining amount of KSH 1800 to buy food to avoid starvation."