"Imagine having to starve in my old age, as if I had not worked a day in my life during my heyday. I have nothing to my name, not even one chicken. I have no farm that I can plant food for consumption leave alone selling. All my life was focused on raising my children. We did not afford to save any money for use in old age. Now that there is a drought, my husband and I are almost starving to death. What a way to die! What a pity!"

"Receiving this money from GiveDirectly means I will be able to revive my kiosk business and upgrade it to a modern retail shop. I am planning to construct a retail shop at a cost of 200 Dollars. A bigger structure will provide a great platform for growth because I will be able to buy large stock translating making handsome profits. I will sell a wide variety of commodities such as wheat flour, maize flour, sugar, kerosene among others. I will also use the transfer to start chicken rearing business. I'm planning to start with 50 chicken; there is a ready market for chicken in my village meaning I will be able to sell more at a profit. This will boost my family's income thus improvement of our standard of living."

"My life is different now because i have managed to do 2-3 big things,as I'm talking to you i own a chicken business it is something i ever wished to do and its a dream coming true thanks to this organisation for making my dreams come true in a blink of an eye."

"Receiving this money means a continuous income to sustain my family. I have always wanted to start a food kiosk but lack of money has not made it possible for me to realize the dream. I had build a small kisok near my homestead and I plan to use it for the business. Aside from the food kiosk I also plan to start rearing chicken that I can sell after four weeks and earn an income. I will spend the 3000 KES for the first transfer to buy the chicken and use the profit I make to open the food kiosk."

"I have a desire of starting a business, but I don't have money now .With the cash transfer I will start selling food, like cold storage chicken and other meat.I have credited money from my mother to start a business before, It was going well but I had to pay back the debt. After I paid back, I had nothing left to continue the market because the money credit for the business was not much."

"I am passionate about rearing chickens. I started with one hen but after hatching they increased up to 40 in number. But in the last one month diseases killed almost all of them. This affected me since I had spent all my savings on this investment. So when I get this money I would love to start up again. I will start with 10 chickens each costing KES 450. Receiving this money will help me bring back my most treasured venture."

"I plan to expand my house to a two roomed house. Where I lay my head at night is the same place I rare my chicken and outside I run my business. I need more space and better structures. I will buy iron sheets to roof my house and a piece of land where I can farm."

"I have been in the business of brewing our local liquor. For the past two years, I have been trying to find ways of changing jobs. Chicken business in the village is a sure way of making quite a lot of money. If I am enrolled in the Give Directly program, keeping aside 5,000KES of the first three transfers will aid purchase of a few chicken to start with. That will mean a lot to my foly and I."

"When I dropped out of school due to lack of school fees, my hope for a bright future flushed right before my eyes. I have been sitting idle at home feeling useless because I have nothing to fall back on. No business, no papers, my family is quite poor and cannot raise capital for me to start a business. With my first transfer, I will buy two chicken for business and keep adding two every month for the next 4 months. I'll sell eggs and make a living. This will mean the world to me."

"I have been yearning to have a regular source of income. The warm climatic condition experienced in the region that I reside favors poultry farming. With poultry farming, I am assured of a regular flow of income through the sale of poultry products eg eggs, and chicken. I intend to gradually scale up my poultry business by buying a hatching solar incubator for KES 35,000 and 2 trays of improved eggs species. The first phase is to be hatching and selling them directly to potential customers during market days. The second phase will be to start looking after the chicks for some months and then selling part of them as I retain the others to give me production eggs."