"I have no formal job thus I engage in mixed farming to be able to sustain my family. I have been a poultry farmer for long and I have loved this farming because of its daily eggs production. I have been able to sell eggs to get money to meet other household needs and petty emergencies that arise in day to day life. Even though the risk of predators was a challenge, the biggest challenge I had with poultry farming was the frequent cause of conflicts in my neighbors since they could crossover and destroy their crops. It had always been my wish to keep them in a better structure for easy control but this was not possible to be due to limited resources. The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have been able to achieve my dream of building a better structure to keep my poultry. I am happy that I have peace of mind, live in harmony with my neighbors, and my chickens are safe from predators. I also have easy control of my chickens thus none still complains that my chickens have destroyed their crops in their farms."

"When I received my first transfers, my priority was to buy a dairy cow which I did so by acquiring one worth KES 30000. I am now glad since I no longer buy milk daily as I did before. It had been my biggest ambition to own a cow but the overwhelming family needs never gave me a chance to buy one. I am happy that I own one now courtesy of GiveDirectly. As a result of this, I have been able to save money I would otherwise use in buying milk and use it to meet other household needs. Also, I used some amount to start a poultry keeping project for my wife by buying some chicken. I spent the remaining amount on beddings, seats, clothes, two sacks of maize flour and other foodstuffs for my family. I feel so happy when I see the current state of my family at a position that could not have been if it was not for GiveDirectly."

"I had a lot of chickens a while back, but they all died when a deadly flu struck months back. I have never managed to buy any more since then, but it is important that I do, so that whenever I have a visitor I can have a decent meal to offer them from the chicken especially when I have no money to buy food. I would like to buy at least two chickens to start off with which I know I can do within the next four months."

"I have a new goal of starting a business of selling cereals but it is very unfortunate that I am not able to start it because of lack of capital being that I have spent all the money that I received from give directly. Although I can sell some of my chicken to start the business."

"My life is different from how it was in that, I have managed to buy a few chicken and cows. These were some of the dreams that sounded impossible before I started receiving transfers from Give Directly. I feel proud of owning them because almost everyone in our village has them, therefore, I will cease being the odd one out. I also feel good because cows are always considered to be very important assets"

"My life is currently different in that I was able to keep my daughter in school by paying both school fees and extra fees for her remedial classes. I feel good because she won't be sent home due to school fee arrears. This will give her ample time to study and concentrate on her studies. Apart from that, I also boosted my poultry farm by adding more chicken."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that l started poultry keeping which is currently doing very well. I am able to sell them when I need to attend to any emergency, as compared to before when l had only one source of income that could not carter for my family needs being that I have a lot of responsibilities and I have a large family. The chicken are also a source of food to us especially when things are tough and my family have nothing to eat."

"I am a dairy farmer and as I expand I always try to minimize costs.I therefore have a plan of buying a chaff cutter machine which will save me time and money while feeding the cows.I incur costs especially because I have to employ someone to do the work.The machine will cost me Ksh 30,000(300 USD).My second plan when I receive this money is cementing the kitchen floor.My long term plan has been to see all the floors of my house cemented.The kitchen is the only room remaining so far.I also want to fence a part of my compound so that I can confine my chicken within the compound.Sometimes they lay eggs and are eaten by stray dogs because the compound is open to all kinds of animals."

"When I received my first transfer, I used part of it to buy three sacks of maize flour so that it would relieve me of the cost of buying maize flour daily. Apart from that, I also bought six plastic chairs and two three-seater seats. I decided to buy these seats because I had very few that were not enough for my whole family. I have been using a kerosene lamp for a while and it is very costly and not bright enough to light my house. This prompted me to buy a solar panel and battery for lighting purposes in my house and also paid the cost of installing it. I am now glad since we have security lights on throughout the night. As a way of investing this money, I bought five goats for rearing and some chicken. This will help me in case of a financial crisis since I can easily sell them. I used the remaining amount to buy some farm inputs and hired a tractor to till my farm in preparation for the planting season."

"My life is currently different from how it was four months ago in that I have been able to start a poultry keeping project. This has enabled me to live a stress-free life because I can easily meet our daily needs without much struggle. Chicken is a staple food for the people in this region. I rarely miss customers which means I am never broke. Starting another poultry farm like this one means I will be empowering myself more."