"My goal was to renovate my house and buy more materials for my fishing business ."

"I been living by cutting palm and fishing. I couldn't barely feed my family two square meal a day. I have had a very hard labor since I was a youth up to present.I am a very poor man seeking for help. God answer my prayers by sending Give Directly to help heal my poverty. I am overwhelmed to be a part of this program. I believe before the end of this program, my life will change. With the first transfer, things are improving already."

"Before receiving transfer from GiveDirectly, I am fisherman who was always doing daily hired on other people Canon for my family and I livelihood. With this life there was not much improvements done in the lives of my family. Excitingly, since I started receiving transfers from GiveDirectly, it has served as light to our world. Since then, I immediately decided to built a new house because that was one of my goals. Therefore, I used most of my three transfers and bought building materials such as zinc, zinc nail, roofing nail, planks and others. Now with my recent transfer, I decided to buy my own fishing canon and nets. And I am hopeful that the fishing activities will serve as source of income for my family and our lives will definitely change for the better. Thanks to Give Directly for this opportunity given me financially."

""The challenge I am facing currently is lack of finance. I am involved into farming, but the proceeds from the fishing is not enough to build a house, start a business and at the same time cater to my household needs"."

""I am building a house, but I have not been able to complete it due to lack of finance. When I receive my transfer from GiveDirectly I will use portion of it to buy materials so that I can complete my house project, and used the remaining one to buy fishing net because I am a fisher man"."

"My goal is to buy a fishing net for my husband to start fishing for us. He (husband) is a fisherman by profession but work for someone else. His earning is so little to care for me and our three children. And it is one of our biggest dream to own a fishing net which will help us to open our own fishing business, where I can help start a dry fish business. This I believe will help increase our income that we will then be able to provide enough for our household."

"I spend all of my transfer on buying fishing materials like cannon,fishing net and hook."

"GD make me to become an independent woman in business, right now i having my mini business and also during fishing business, looking at things GD did not do anything that is not well."

"I was selling clothes and dishes, but the house we were living in broke down. My husband and I decided to build another house. All my business money was used on the building project. My husband fishing in the sea for us to sell the fish and buy food. When I get this transfer from Givedirectly, I will start my business again. It will help to sustain my family."

"I am very excited to be one of the beneficiaries of GiveDirectly financial program. I am a petite trader, I usually buy fish from the fishermen, dried them and sell in the nearby markets. That had been the source of livelihood for my family. After receiving my recent transfer, my new goal is I decided to buy my own canon for fishing business which I have done. With this new goal I feel very delighted that I am now an employer. And with hopes and aspirations the ending from the fishing activities will be enough to take care of my boys and myself. Thanks to GiveDirectly for this life changing opportunity."