"It had always been my wish to educate my children to a level that they would want even though I am faced with financial challenges. So my major goal is to ensure that my children go to school uninterrupted and and will achieve this by ensuring that I spend part of my monthly transfers on paying any school fees balance that they might have accrued."

"My plan is to buy livestock because I have always been interested in livestock rearing, so the transfers that I would be receiving from GiveDirectly would be of great help. I want to ensure that every month I set aside some amount that would enable me to buy the livestock by the end of the year and in case of any financial difficulties in future, I would be in a position to sell and get the money I need."

"Since I am a single mother, I would always want my children to have a better life and also continue with their education, therefore my main goal in the next one year is to save part of my transfers every month and by the end of the year, I would want to start up a greengrocery business so that I have a source of income to support my children."

"My children had been on and off from school due to the lack of school fees and I had been struggling so hard to look for money, but the little I manage to get is also shared to meet other needs. My plans with the future transfers is to ensure that I reduce the amount of school fees arrears every month so that my children would have uninterrupted learning."

"I was previously a farmer specializing in livestock rearing(goats) but due to financial challenges, I was forced to sell all of them and was left with nothing. My wish had been to buy more livestock and embark on my farming project. So with the transfers that I would be getting, I plan to buy as many goats and keep them so that in the future, they would be of great help as well."

"I had always wanted to build a house that would be enough for my children and I because the one that we currently live in is not suitable for all of us. Therefore my goal for the next one year is to build a house and I had started buying materials in bits with the monthly transfers that I always receive. I have bought a number of iron sheets and still planning to buy more in the next months."

"In the next year(s) I wish to venture into any new business, be it clothes or groceries, that'd expand and bring me more profit than the kanyenya business that I am currently doing. I feel like this would really help alleviate my poverty for I would be able to meet my daily needs with the money realized from that business."

"As a HH we have bought 10 bags of cement for our house's floor and interior walls' plastering. We have also bought a door worth $30 and a set of chairs at $42 for our home comfort. Additionally, we spent some of that money to buy maize for food. We have saved $100 to invest in our shoe selling business when the rainy season is over. I go and order the china-made shoes from Limbe township and come sell them here in my village at a profit."

"I purchased one bundle of zinc to add to the previous one I bought out of my first transfer for my house project. My current house is a thatch hut where I do everything, including cooking. The smoke gives my eyes hard time and I find it difficult to breathe at night due to the smoky room. This makes me to cough most of the time, thus causingme lungs issues. Having a new house will be a blessing to me and keep sickness away. I also spent part of my transfer on my daughter's school fees; she's attending in Monrovia and she's in the 9th grade. My daughter will be able to get me out of poverty once she's educated."

"Since I have not gotten the placement in school, I resolved to do poultry and horticulture farming. Even though it looks promising, the current drought situation poses an adverse challenge to that venture. Therefore, when the year began, I made a goal of investing in horticulture and boosting my poultry farm. From these ventures, I have been able to get some steady income, hence supporting the family's nutritional needs is not much of a struggle. I do this with the ultimate goal of advancing my academics to allow me to be easily employed."