"For an investment purpose, I spent $190  to purchase four goats to be raised. If I ever find myself in need of money, I will sell part of the goats. We rely on my husband's occasional work because we do not have a consistent source of income, so it has been difficult to meet our necessities. Since he does not earn much from it, our kids' school clothes were worn out and they owed back payments to the school. I spent $50 using the transfers to pay off the debt and get them new clothes for school. I still have $60 in savings, spent $17 on a new mattress to replace the old one, and spent the remaining $21 on enough food to feed our family for some period."

"After using the first transfer to successfully build a new stable, respectable home, we agreed with my spouse to utilize some of our second transfer to pay off the significant school fee arrears that our children owed the school. Our four primary school-aged children ended up owing the school $250 since we were unable to pay their tuition because my spouse who was the sole breadwinner was not lucky to secure job for quite sometime. Thank God, through the second transfer we managed to clear the arrears. Additionally, we spent $80 on two goats with the intention of raising them and eventually selling some of them to raise our household income. I used $120 to start a fish-selling business. We have seen a slight improvement in our standard of living since then, and the business is steadily coming up. We used to struggle to buy breakfast, so I'm delighted we can now afford a full day's worth of food and even put aside $2 per day. We used the remaining $80 to buy food for our family. We appreciate the help because without it, we could not have accomplished what we have so far."

"My greatest achievement in life is to see my five children living a better life in future. I personally dropped out of school at an early age due to lack of school fees. The struggles I have gone through has made me enroll three of them in boarding secondary schools. We keep livestock ( goats and cows) inorder to meet all their basic needs including good education but because of unpredictable weather patterns and lack of enough pasture, it fetches low prices. We have $300 school fees in arrears and they are sent home once in a month. This affects there performance as they spend most of their time at home. I will be happy when I receive the transfers because it will help pay the school fees they will comfortably study and improve on their performance. The rest of the money I will invest in poultry keeping for income sustainability."

"From the first transfer, I started constructing a two-room house because the one I had was very small and congested. Since I used the transfer for other things as well, I was unable to complete the construction. When I got the second one, I prioritized completing the house. I bought 24 pieces of iron sheets for $228 and the roofing timbers for $105 and the contractor's labor charge amounted to $140. As of now, the house is complete and I am happy for living in a decent, spacious, iron sheet-roofed house. In addition to this, I bought a goat for $30 and used the remaining amount for the family's upkeep"

"After utilizing the second transfer, I developed a goal that I would like to accomplish before the first quarter of next year elapses. My desire has been investing in livestock farming specifically goats because they withstand the harsh climatic condition of our area. Not only withstanding drought but also they are cheap to purchase and maintain as well as easily convertible to monetary value due to their ready markets."

"I have a family of three and we are living in a three-room house with mud walls and an earthen floor. The roof is an iron sheet. The house has dust and it is semi-permanent. Living in a semi-permanent house is worrying me everyday. I will use $ 500 to change my house from muddy to a permanent house. This money will cater for 20 bags of cement, sand, water, and labor. I will also use $ 300 to buy 6 goats as an investment. My grandchild who is at primary school will use this investment as school fees when he joins the secondary school. He is now in class seven. I am happy for the program."

"I have three children schooling at Sosodem primary. They each have school fee balances of $ 48for the whole year. In total, I am supposed to pay $162 for this year. The children have been at home for the past two weeks now due to the school fees balances. Their performance has gone down and one of the children wanted to be a doctor in the future. I will use $ 424 to clear the balances and also prepay the school fees for next year. My desire is for the children to remain at school and concentrate on their studies to achieve their objectives. I will also buy 10 goats as an investment. My first child is in class four so the investigation will help me to have enough fees for his secondary education four years to come. The goats will cost $ 500 . Thanks for Give directly program because now I have a blueprint of how my children's education will be."

"I spent $100 of the recent transfers to support the education of my 4 children who are both in primary and secondary schools. In addition, I bought two goats to restart livestock rearing that I had done 2 years ago due to chronic illness. This will be a long-term investment for my children that will help them when they reproduce to further their education. Furthermore, I bought building materials that will assist in constructing a decent house for my 7 children whom we were sleeping in the same house something that is against our traditions. With the remaining amount, I bought enough food for the family since we did not have food due to the ongoing famine and I was yet to get money from the iron quarries where I work."

"My spouse is caring for his three siblings, whose secondary school tuition was covered in full with the first transfer. Although our four young children have not yet joined secondary school, they will do so shortly. Due to the fact that my husband is our only source of income and works as a baker, it is difficult for us to satisfy all of our needs. In order to increase our household income, we spent $195 on two goats, a cow, and three ducks. We intend to sell some of them when they give birth. For my two children's entire primary school year, we spent $50 in school fees. Purchasing food was difficult due to the prolonged drought this year that caused an increase in the cost of food commodities. We are grateful that Give Directly came to our aid. We purchased enough food with the remaining $286 to last us for a considerable amount of time."

"First off, my house is in a very bad shape as you can see. It's too small that just a four by four bed with a metal box on the side is enough to completely fill it up. Again the roof is a flat one somehow too low that ends up making the whole house hotter than oven during the day. Still, because of the short roof its walls are also washed down with some parts of the roof leaking too. I plan to construct a new one when I get this money. It should be at least two roomed with a proper iron roof. This will cost around $600 , after which I will buy some goats and cows to also have my own domestic animals that I can always sell when I need money urgently to solve something."