"My priority when I receive the first transfer is to clear school fees balance for my children. Currently I have a debt of 1500 KES. I will be using the transfers to facilitate the education of my children. Six children are already enrolled in school. My long term plan is owning a motorcycle that will facilitate my business of selling charcoal. I currently use a bicycle which is an inefficient form of transport. A second motorcycle will cost me around 30,000 KES."

"receiving this money means employment for me. I dropped out of school after my parents were no longer able to pay the tuition fees. I have 4 other siblings and my parents were even struggling to provide us with food. I had to search for employment to salvage the situation at home. Equipped with no skills, finding employment slots was very difficult. I resorted to motorcycle taxi business. After two years, I got married and I am now a father of 3. Making a 1,000 KES a week from my occupation, sustaining my family is very difficult. The needs are overwhelming the income. I plan to join a technical college. 30,000 KES will be enough for me to enroll in a masonry course. The stonework knowledge will make me a more valuable candidate for employers. Hopefully, I will be employed in a construction company. I will then be able to take care of my family and even offer assistance to my siblings and parents." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

(Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"My husband toils every day to find ways of making money so that our children can feed and go to school comfortably. His sources of income were the goats he used to keep but unfortunately, we had to sell all of them for his medication when he got sick for close to 3 years. Currently, he depends on his motorcycle which does not bring good income as the livestock selling business. Lack of sufficient finances in the family is therefore the current challenge that I face."

"After seeking all the livestock that I had for medical treatment while I was sick I was left with nothing to support my family with. However, at the begging of this year, a friend gave me his motorcycle that I have been using to ferry people so I can earn a living. It also helps me in ferrying people's charcoal to the market center. This brought light back into my life after losing hope of ever having a source of living again."

"I do not have a new goal. My goal is to continue improving my business that I am doing. I sell dry coconuts and gari in Monrovia. It is a business that I have been doing for so many years. But due to some financial problem that I experienced from paying for my children educations make my business to go down. I have six living children and four are going to school. Supporting my four children in school is a serious challenge for me and my husband. So, this transfer has reduced a lot of burdens from on us (my husband and I)" (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"I will buy zinc and zinc nails. I will also buy other building materials and pay the contractors that will build my house." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"With my recent transfer, I was able to purchase maize flour for my family. Even though I do motorcycle taxis, there has a low income generated from this business owing to the high cost of living. For the two consecutive seasons, we never had any good harvest hence we have been forced to keep on buying food. The increase in food prices has of late made it even more difficult for us to obtain food thus we occasionally miss meals. Fortunately, when I received my transfer, I felt relief because I knew that I could acquire food that could take my family for about a week." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"As soon as I learned that I had received my transfer, I felt so good and grateful to GiveDirectly. This was the least expected experience because at first, I was doubting how practical it would be to give such a huge number of people such a large sum of financial support. Indeed on that day, I was so glad and super excited to have received the transfer. It was at around 9 am and I had gone to Mariakani to fix a technical problem my motorcycle had the. I am so happy I am among the lucky community members." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"I am a motorcycle rider mostly transporting ride pillion at a fee. That is what I depend on to earn a living to fend for my family of 4 children. The motorcycle is not mine and so we have an arrangement with the owner where I pay him a minimum of KES 500 per day worked, any extra money that I get is my daily wage. The business has sustained me and my family for a while now, at least at the end of the day I go home with something to feed my family. I have always desired to buy my motorcycle so that all the money I make goes to my pocket as opposed to the arrangement where I must pay the owner his dues first and look for mine which sometimes I do not attain. I am so elated that I am on the verge of realizing that dream now that Give Directly transfers are in the offing. I intend to use KES 60000 to buy a second-hand motorcycle and use the rest of the money to construct a better kitchen house." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)