"My life is now different because I managed to buy livestock such as goats and chicken. These have been the well thoughtful assets that I can depend on just in case of any financial crisis. Currently some of the goats have started reproducing which is making me hopeful. When the offsprings multiply and mature enough, I will start a business of selling them and then I will be saving the money and start some other projects. In addition to that, I will be able to send all my children to school because currently most of them are still young. I believe by the time they will be joining the school I will have enough that I have saved and i will not struggle in paying their fees and meeting their daily needs as well."

"Receiving this money means financial independence to me. I plan to venture into poultry keeping project to enable me to support my spouse in providing for the family. This will cost me a total amount of $250 from building a poutry unit to buying chicken to start the project with. I also plan to build a more spacious two roomed iron roofed house which will cost a total of $350 of my transfer. I will also spend $250 to buy a dairy cow for milking and use the remaining part of my transfer to buy food and clothes for my family"

"On receiving the second transfer, we had to complete the already started projects which we had picked from the first transfer. In addition, we bought a chain link, hired labor which put up the fence. We also spent part of the money on buying foodstuff, chicken feed for the poultry project which we had started and also spent the remaining on Christmas shopping."

"I love to work in my small chicken garden. In there I have grown vegetables that sustain my family with food and a little surplus for sale during rainy season. Working in my garden every morning gives me so much joy."

"I spent part of my first transfer on paying school fees for my two children who are in college and secondary school. I then bought some goats as my potential assets that I can depend on in case of any emergency. I bought some new clothes for my family to replace the old ones which were old. We are now like the rest, we could not even afford to visit our friends because of the conditions of the clothes. I bought some iron sheets and building poles to build a small house to keep our chicken. Previously we used to share the same house which was so unhygienic. I am using the remaining amount of money in buying some enough foodstuffs since we have been starving due to the long droughts."

"i now have a dairy cow. Also, I now live comfortably in my newly built house. we were living old Previously I lived in an old house whose walls had started cracking. When I received my transfer, I purchased enough building materials that include iron sheets, building poles and paid for the labor cost. I settled on this since the cost of renovating our old house was almost the same as that of building a new one. I am happy that I have a new house to live in with my family through this money. Also, the transfer enabled me to purchase some chicken, sheep and a dairy cow. These are assets to me that I did not have before and I can lean on in case I am in dire need of cash."

"I spent the whole amount which I received as my second transfer on farming. I used part of it to buy a barbed wire and poles to use in fencing my compound. I settled on this so that my livestock and chicken will not be moving to the farm to destroy our crops. Also, I spent the other portion to buy a dairy cow for milk production."

"In the next four months, my target is to expand my poultry house. This I am planning to do since I have set a target of keeping up to 100 chicken going forward. With this number of chicken, I am sure that we will be having enough income to meet all our family's expenses with much ease and invest in other meaningful development projects for the general welfare of the family."

"I used KES 35000 of my first transfer to buy a dairy cow and used KES 5000 to buy improved kienyeji chicken for keeping. These two assets were so much important to me in seeing me have better living standards for my family by empowering me to even meet some of the most basic financial obligations. I have already felt the results of the cash transfer since the cow that I bought with the money has increased its productivity in milk. Initially it was producing one litre of milk per day but now the production has gone up to two litres per day. I also remained with some little amount of money that saw me complete our house with tiles. I feel so much indebted to GiveDirectly for this support."

"The biggest difference in my daily life since I started receiving these transfers is that I have a poultry project which is a very important investment in my life. Before the transfers, I did not have any form of income to rely on. I used to rely on an income from casual work which was not stable and not paying much. This is why I had started plans of investing through an income-generating activity so as to better my life. I was not able to accomplish the plan before because I did not have the resources to start any income-generating activity. Since I received the transfers, I have been able to buy building materials such as iron sheets, timber and nails which I used in constructing a chicken shed. The most important part is that I have been able to buy chicken which has used in starting a poultry project. By the end of the year, I know they will have matured and will have started the sales."