"As I do not currently have a source of income, I have not yet set any goals for myself. I have trained myself to make plans for things I already have. In order to reduce expectations that can cause irritation if the plan does not work out, I created this culture. I will make plans for what I want to do once I have the money in hand based on that."

"It has been a dream come true to begin raising livestock. As I lacked the resources to own my own, I used to be in awe of other people's livestock. I spent $280 on a cow and two goats after receiving the second transfer. I am now content with my investment in animals. For $120, I also purchased a mattress and a bed. I started out with a traditional bed that was damaged and hard to sleep on. I am content right now because my bed is cozy and comfortable. I then utilized the remaining money to purchase some food and kept the remainder for the family's maintenance."

"I am a mother of eight children, and I desire to see them succeed in their educational pursuits. Though I have had a low-income level from the beginning of the year, I developed a goal of diverting a large proportion of my transfer to paying school fees. I know that if I fail to grant them that opportunity, they will not be responsible people in the future. I wish to see them grow to attain self independence. In addition to that, I also long to be investing part of the transfer to buy goats that I can raise for other family development plans."

"In my family, I am the sole breadwinner. My wife is a housewife and does not have any source of income. She fully leans on my support. As I continue to receive my transfers, I have developed a goal of starting a business for her. I am optimistic that it will create an opportunity for her to raise some income. As a result, the family will have an alternative source of income to help meet the competing family needs. She is likely to succeed in this because she had done business dealing with the sale of vegetables."

"Imagine at the age of 64 years now, charcoal burning remains the main source of income for my household. This work has drained my energy and I am no longer active in it because it is so intensive. Its income is very low, usually $20 per 2 weeks. This earning usually go to food and this explains why I have for a long time lived in a small house that is not worthy of me. I, therefore, consider a financial crisis to be my biggest challenge."

"The land that i constructed my house in is very small. It only stops a few meters and my house covers it all and thus cannot do any other activity like small scale farming on it. So, lack of enough land to grow more crops is the greatest challenge that I am facing. Usually, we get our food from my other small plot of land uphill. Last year in November, the landslides destroyed my crops there, and I got so sad and worried. So my family is big as we are 9 members in the family and there is no enough food to eat. This has been my other challenge."

"Honestly speaking this organisation has next to none shortfalls that I see. I have seen organisation come and go but this one is different for it is tackling the root cause of a person's problems. I tell you, GD is loved by me and my community such that if your organisation vehicle was stuck in the mud, we'd graciously push it out until you reach the tarmac road from here hahaha, that's how much grateful I am to GD."

"I have bought 2 female goats at $80 so that they breed and multiply and I'd sell their offsprings when need be in future after GD is gone from my community. Furthermore, I have bought a wooden door at $24 for my house for at first I had a bamboo thatched door. I have saved the rest of the funds so that I use it to mould and burn bricks for the new house that I intend to build after the rainy season is over."

"We are eternally grateful for this organisation and we see nothing wrong in it's undertakings. We wish it nothing but the very best."

"I was in the middle of my daily routine of producing charcoal in a nearby village when I received a message notification confirming the receipt of the first transfer from GiveDirectly. I was with my husband at the time, and he was equally excited when he heard the news. We had been constantly planning how to spend the money, and it could not be long before we collected it and began spending."