"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."

" My business of selling local brew is currently down compared to a time like this last year. The drought has made the coconuts trees be unproductive, and the harvest is dwindling every day. It is for this reason that I decide to spend KSH 600 from the transfer to buy two chickens. This a start of me venturing into the poultry rearing and selling business which will earn me extra income. Besides buying the chicken, I spent KSH 700 to clear school debt for my two children for them to sit for their end of term exam. Because of the poor business, I have not been earning much and we have hard to survive on one meal a day or even sleep on hungry stomachs together with my family members. After thinking hard, I decide to buy food with the remaining amount of money. I bought food bulk so that my family would starve due to lack of food."

"Poultry farming has always sustained most of my family needs.I have a chicken coop and I breed. chicks and sell to any neighbors who need. I have a new goal of starting a general shop in a nearby shopping center hence will operate it during the evening hours."

"It was hectic living in my maternal home, no day passed without chaos from my brothers. Thanks to my little son who started keeping chicken which was later exchanged with goats. It is through the selling of the goats that facilitated me to buy land which I am now happily living with my children."