"What brought happiness to me in the last six (6) months was when my birthday came and my husband gave me a surprise with a roster chicken which was killed and eaten by members of my household. That was the only happy moment in my life for the past six months that I can record."

"Receiving this money would mean an eased burden on school fee payment for my children, better housing and acquired asset for me. In my life I have never known of a decent house, I have lived a life of continuous suffering ever since I was young. The house I lived with my parents before I got married was grass thatched and we could live with chicken and goats under the same roof. Coming to my own house also the conditions remained the same. I never went to school because my parents did not value education especially that girls and it hurts me to date. That's why am currently struggling to educate my children. I have sold whatever I could to pay school fees for them and currently there's no asset under my name that's why I would like to purchase cattle."

"I recently got married and the house that I live with my family is fairly small. It is a single room and it serves as a kitchen, sitting as well as the bedroom. We use firewood to cook and the smoke that emanates from the fireplace is enough to get someone out of sleep. I keep chicken that also spend the night in the same roof with us and their droppings leave the whole house smelly even after cleaning. I plan to build a 30-iron sheet house that is big enough to accommodate my family and visitors. From my math, it will cost KES 25000 to buy materials and an extra KES 6000 to pay for labor. Receiving this money will change the face of my family."

"I fully depend on my husband since I do not have any source of income. Receiving this money will help me start an income generating activity so as to support my husband provide for the family. I plan to start a poultry unit where I can keep chicken for sale and also get eggs for sale. I will start by building a structure at a cost of around KES 5,000 and buying 10 chicken at a cost of KES 5,000 as well. I also plan to spend KES 50,000 to start goat keeping. I will buy 10 goats for a start. From the goats, I can get money to start other projects especially when they multiply."

"Receiving this money from GiveDirectly means I will fulfil my dream of owning a chicken rearing business. I have had a desire of rearing chicken. However this has been impossible due to my poor financial status. I am planning to use KES 50,000 to start my business. This amount will cater for building the structure and buying 30 chicks plus food. I will further use KES 40,000 to construct a three bedroom house for my family. Three rooms will serve me better because one room will be for mine, the other room for my children and the third room for visitors. This is what I have always desired to do and doing this will in the end give me the peace of mind I have always desired."

"When my current daily life is compared to how it was before, I can say that it has changed a lot. This is because I have been able to start saving some money unlike before when I would spend all my income on food. Due to this, I have been able to purchase 8 pieces of iron sheets that I am planning to use in building myself a more decent house and four chickens using these savings. This has been possible since I was able to purchase a motorcycle that I am using to offer taxi services in the neighborhood using my transfers and as a result, my daily income has increased from KES 200 to KES 400."

"The happiest part of my day is during the day. I enjoy spending time to pay attention to my farm. I look after chicken , sheep and cows. It makes me happy to see them healthy and productive, assuaring me of an income to spend on the household needs."

"I spent 10000 KES to pay school fees for my children 10,000 since I wanted to clear the debt so that my son can be given his certificates which will enable him to apply for a job easily. I also bought chicken worth 2000 KES because this will ensure a continues flow of cash when I sell the eggs hence avoiding begging of cash from my children. I used the rest of the transfers to stock dry foods stuffs such as maize for future use to protect from incoming drought since this land is not fertile."

"I Bought a cow worth 29200 KES because it will help me with milk for family use and for income generation since I will sell part of it to raise school fess for my children. I also bought some Beddings worth 7600 KES since the ones I had were worn out and didn't help especially now during the cold season. I love chicken since you can never sleep angry when one has them so I used the rest of the transfers to buy more and renovate their coop."

"I have been having a goal of starting a poultry project ever since and in preparation to this, I had already started looking for market where I will be supplying eggs. Even though I had no funds to use in starting this project, I knew that God would soon make a way and currently, I can see light at the end of the tunnel. This is because I am planning to spend my next transfer to purchase some chicken as their house will be ready by then. This has made my daily life different as I now work tirelessly towards achieving this as I know that this project will be more demanding especially the first few months."