"When I received the transfer I spent KSH 800 in buying some four chickens. I have always wanted to own any livestock but due to my financial status, I have not been able to do that. I have a plan of rearing the chicken and later selling them and buying some goats. I also spent KSH 2000 on my son. My son is currently in his final year of study in his high school education. He schools in a day school and this requires him to rent a house, support him with money for food and other personal effects. On the day I received the money he had come home because the landlord had locked him out because of rent arrears. Luckily I received the money and gave him the KSH 2000 and went back to continue with his education. I spent the KSH 200 remaining to buy a packet of maize flour and some sugar and consumed it together with my husband."

"I have two sons who currently depend entirely on me to provide for them. One of my sons is currently in his final year of secondary education. He learns in a day school far away from our home. He needs support in terms of paying his rent, food, and other personal effects. I currently do not have a job and I have been surviving by burning some logs of wood into charcoal and selling that. Currently, my health status does not favor me to do that job. My last born is epileptic. He has been like this since when he was a young boy 4 years old. To manage his situation he requires some medicine. Getting the money to buy the medicine has proved to be challenging for my family. When I received my first transfer, I spent KSH 900 to buy him some medicine to manage his condition. I also spent KSH 800 on my son who is in his final year has his pocket money when he goes back to school. With the remaining KSH 1300, I bought 6 chickens. My wife and had decided to start a poultry project that will be one of the income-generating projects."

"My source of joy for the last Six months has been getting money for food stuffs from selling poultry eggs.I have been rearing chicken which gives me about KES 200 per day from their eggs. I have not lacked to meet my daily needs in this house for that Period."

"I have taken care of my father's heard of cows most of my life and this has ingrained a big passion for livestock in me. When I heard I would be receiving this money I knew I could make this dream of mine come to life. I knew that I would use this money to buy cattle which I would also herd and turn it into my own economic activity. I have been bought a number of goats and chicken with this transfer and I am well on the way to becoming an animal farmer. I had not thought much about my other goal untill I received my money. I was in debt in Mombasa where I had taken a loan to begin a car wash business which due to unfortunate circumstances hadnt done so well during the Pandemic period. I was chased out my house in Mombasa and was forced back to my country home. Now that I had received this cash I thought it prudent to settle the debt as It wasn't in order to still be indebted as they still pursued me which meant I had no peace."

"I am a farmer who deals with cassava and its been a challenging to support my family. The first transfer came and I spent on school fees and food.The second transfer came when we had nothing and I bought a bale of maize flour for kes 1200 and bought building materials of kes 1800 for the chicken coop.My recent transfers was spent on ensuring my family enjoyed the Christmas period.I used all the cash to buy food for my 7 children.It was quite a memorable time because my children really enjoyed and made merry that particular time."

"At home, the chicken we have are doing well and continue to grow. I can even sell some and use the proceeds to buy more chicken or to buy feeds. I am now in a position to buy their medicine as well. All thanks to the transfer from GiveDirectly."

"I am been engaging in small poultry farming. Last December I sold 7 chickens and earned KES 3000 which I used to buy maize grains for household use. I was so elated since the prices fetched good prices that enabled me to buy a 90 kg sag of maize which we are consuming to date."

"In the last 6 months the thing that bring the most happiness was new year's day, 1st January. I was happy on this day because I was very grateful to God for getting me this far. I killed one of my chickens and ate with children."

"Ever since I graduated from campus in 2017, I have been hoping to venture into a sustainable business that will secure a future for my family of 3. However, acquiring capital to begin a poultry farm has been a challenge since I depend on house construction to earn income. The availability of such jobs is dependent on the state of the country's economy, as I can even stay for up to 10 days to earn on average KES 6000 per completed house. With this income, I have managed to build a poultry house that is yet to be completed. Givedirectly has come in handy and I am happy that my dream of owning a poultry farm will come true as I intend to use KES 30000 to purchase mature 10 kienyeji chicken for a start as well as complete the poultry house."

"I operate a motorcycle taxi business within my locality. I love this job since it has helped me see my family through. I earn approximately KES 300 a day. Currently, we have flooded this business thus we hardly get clients. I have a piece of land that is underutilization since I do not have money power. To me, receiving this money is a start-up in life. I am planning to spend KES 45000 to invest in livestock. I wish to buy a cow, two goats, and chickens. I am sure this will be my source of income shortly. My daily household needs will be easily met since I will have milk and eggs from my farm. I will cut my daily expenditures hence have some money to save for my future endeavors."