 I became deaf when I was in class 2. Due to an illness, my ears developed some problems. I was hospitalized for a prolonged period and ultimately lost my hearing. My wife and I communicate normally. I have been teaching her sign language and now she can grasp quite a lot. For example, if I fingerspell the word hen, I would show them how it is signed. Then they would communicate with me normally. They understand me well. I was working at a place where they made paper for printing. When COVID hit, our boss decided to downsize and some of us were made redundant. I thought it best to leave Nairobi and go back to the countryside. I found some friends who ran a farmers group and I decided to join it. I learnt a lot and was really empowered by FAO. After several training sessions with FAO, I chose to focus on poultry farming. We are working with young people between the ages of 18 to 35. Our overall objective as a program is to create decent rural youth employment. People with disabilities was a very unique opportunity for us as a program. One because it gave us an opportunity to work with a group of young people that we have not worked with before, but also it gave us an opportunity of trying to create visibility and giving them a platform of how they can showcase and communicate what they are able to do in the agricultural space. Our mission is a barrier free and inclusive society for all. Our mission is to impact the skills on persons with disabilities in the CI community. We work with smaller groups as self-help groups in the villages. We identify needs of persons with disabilities. We refer them to the hospitals, to educational centres. We offer vocational trainings. We do agribusiness to our members. We don't work in isolation. Like for instance Steve. Steve has a wife who has no disability. He has around family members who are also interested in giving support to see that they succeed. I'm a hustler. All I do is business as I help him into poultry farming too. We engage farming so much. It is the backbone of life. We do it and we love doing it. So from it we get something to support our lives. We take it very positive and we love it so much. They have been in entrepreneurial work before. We came in as FAO. We saw the need and procuring inputs for them was more or less like seed capital. It was to jump start or rather to give them that boost that they needed. Since I started this project, my life has improved for the better. I started with only one chicken. It hatched 15 chicks. When they were big enough, they laid eggs which I sold and made some profit from. I used this money to pay school fees for my daughter who is in a boarding school for the deaf. I also used some for family medication. I want to add more chickens when I get enough funds. For a long time, people with disability have been marginalized in Sia just like in other countries. But the government has highlighted the position of persons with disability so that we ensure efforts towards mainstreaming in all aspects of development. I really look forward to expanding my poultry farming. If I get everything I expect from this project, I will be well off.