"Selling charcoal is a hectic job that requires alot of moving around and this has been a limiting factor during my time of illness. My plan this year is to get a business that would not require me to move as much as well as have better earnings. I hope to use my GD transfers to start a grocery business whose earnings will go into taking care of the needs at home and educating my 5 children currently at school. I also hope to add some more animals that I aim I will use as my emergency fund. I will buy Goats which I will sell when their is need and they will also reproduce ensuring more goats to sell when their is need."

"We have been experiencing a great drought in our area which makes access to food very difficult. I would like to start a business that can sustain us now that my husband is out of work and food prices have been very high. I want to start a grocery business where I will sell groceries and dried fish to make some money to allow us access food now that my husband is out of work. The price of starting the business will be dependent on how much I will get the products for. I also want to buy more goats which I am planning to breed and when they get young ones I will sell them to sort out needs when they come up at home."

"I have been struggling with sickness since my husband passed on.I have a responsibility of a big family yet I don't have a source of income.My sons have all gone far away and have left there families here.I pay school fees for my grandchildren yet there isn't any source of income am sure of."

"My greatest challenge is poverty, I want to educate my children to school so that they can study and have a brighter future but an stuck with the challenge of school fees.My children are kkq just home because of poverty. The nature of he soil is poor thus crops are easily washed away by water especially when it's raining so one has to depend on buying food."

"My greatest fear is lack of help or aid from any one.I have no one to help with providing basic needs and I am aging.The house I sleep licks during the rainy season.The high poverty puts me in poor healthy condition. There is nothing much I do to provide for my self apart from casual labour.I am hopeless about life due to the many challenges I am facing."

"Givedirectly is one of the best organisations so far in the republic of Liberia. Providing cash to the least privilege without any conditions attached is a blessing."

"I think Givedirectly did extremely well by giving us direct cash to improve our lives. What they need to do is to visit other communities that do have no benefit."

"Givedirectly did well by providing honesty towards the whole process. What they need to do is to inform us when they are coming to visit us."

"I'm a farmer who lives with my wife and 6 children. We have all lived in a thatched house for more than 10 years. Things had been very tough for us to get our daily meals. Since I was opportune to have received support from Givedirectly, I decided to build a concrete house with three bedrooms for my family."

"To make ends meet, I buy and sell goats in my local market. I put a lot of effort into providing a nice life and a better tomorrow for my children. I believe they will all graduate from college and land decent jobs that will allow them to appreciate all of the sacrifices we made for them. We had agreed that when they make it in life they will set up a shop for my wife and I where we can relax while selling our stuff. In this shop, we will sell a variety of products and it will make a huge profit. I believe investing in the future of your young children will pay off handsomely and help you rise over time to greater heights."