"I am really challenge with financial support. I want to send my children to school. I also want to start a business and build my house for my family but I don't have money to do all of these. My husband is not working , sometimes he goes fishing and doesn't cash fish, most days we dont have food to eat."

"I so happy today for the visit of GD at my house. The plans I have for this money is very big and I don't know whether I will finish all. My first plan is to establish a very big business of my own;secondly to built my own dwelling place. You know in our certain if you say you're a man; these are some of the things people grade you by.I am living in my people house surviving on fishing,but the fishing work is very risky and difficult. I catch hard over the sea all night just to make life. So my first plan is making business to stop going over the sea and sit home to be call a big business man."

"My greatest joy is when my husband go fishing and return with enough fish for me to sale. That's the only thing that has make me happy in the last 6months."

"I am an orphan and after my parents died I dropped out of school and started doing piece works in order to find food for me and my grandmother , I still do piece works and I managed to start a small fishing business which does not provide enough money for my family. I plan to buy food when I receive this money and also buy comfortable beddings."

"I am from the first of SIXTEEN SIBLINGS of a polygamous family(Father with THREE WIVES) who had struggled to go through High School and fortunately graduated from the Centos High School. It has always been my wish to forge ahead and become a MEDICAL DOCTOR but due to lack of financial support from my parents, I decided to come back home to start FISHING in order to generate money to support myself in a HIGHER SCHOOL of learning but due to the increased in the water volume and roughness of the Ocean it has been a real challenge getting fish. Upon receiving MONEY from GIVE DIRECTLY, I will immediately travel to MONROVIA to get enrolled into the UNIVERSITY of Liberia to achieve my Goal because it will be a DREAM COME TRUE FOR ME."

"In the last 6months the only thing that makes me happy is when my son goes to fishing and he catches a lot of fish. I sell the fish and use the money to buy food( rice and oil) for us to eat for that day."

"The challenges that I am currently facing are food and tuition for my children. I lost my job about six years ago which was the only source of income for my family. As a result of this, my children dropped out of school because I could no longer afford their tuition. I have to go fishing on a daily basis and sell the fish to enable us have food. In most instances, what we get from this is not always enough for us. I feel very bad about this situation because as the head of the home I feel that I have failed my family since I am not able to meet their basic needs."

"The biggest hardship that I face is not having enough money. As a fisherman sometimes I make losses when some of the fish go bad. I also face this hardship when the fishing season is closed because that means I do not have any source of money."

"The biggest hardship I face is that I don't always have enough food in the house. I supplement with fishing so that I am able to provide for my family. I also rely on rice sells to help when food runs out in my house."

"The biggest hardship that I have experienced is shortage of food. I depend on fishing to provide food and other basic needs for my family."