"The biggest thing I want to do this year is get a motorcycle and start a taxi service. Being without a permanent job for the past five months has made life in the village difficult. I work a variety of part-time jobs, including digging pit latrines, burning wood, and selling charcoal. I also build mud houses. Due to the poor economy in the village, these jobs are very difficult to come by. By purchasing the motorcycle, I will become self-employed and generate income to support my family. The purchase of livestock is one of my other objectives. I'll sell them once they've multiplied and use the money from the sale to buy a dairy cow. By offering the milk for sale at the market, I'll profit from the cow."

"GiveDirectly are ,to me, above reproach! I have seen how they have transformed both mine and others lives ,and those of their families. All I could ask is they keeping doing this for many years to come and that they try to include as many worthy recipients as possible." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"My husband and I, along with our seven kids, make up our present family of nine. The primary breadwinner, my husband, runs a motorcycle taxi service, and I occasionally burn charcoal for sale. Recently, the business has slowed down, making it difficult to provide for our family's essential necessities. My children were sent home a few days before to the transfer because they owed $40 in unpaid school fees. We  did not have the funds to send kids back to school, and I was late with the tuition payments. You can only imagine how happy I was to get the transfer. I instantly spent $40 on their fees and $49 on their meals . The $5 that is left I used to invest in the future by buying two hens to raise with the intention of selling part of them after they hatch. I am really appreciative of the help since without the transfer, my kids wouldn't have been able to take the end-of-year exams. The transfer has significantly improved our way of life."

"Lack of reliable sources of income. My husband is a motorcycle taxi rider at the nearest shopping center. He bought a motorcycle on loan from a particular credit company to be repaid weekly at $24 after giving a deposit of $250. The total amount should be $2300 when it's all paid. This is around 170% of the actual value. Personally, I involve mostly in burning and selling charcoal which can only buy is food. It's been tough times for us repaying the loan and trying to pay other bills. This has led to a lot of instances of my children staying out of school because of school fees areas. I have two children in grade school paying termly fees of $30 together." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"My home's roof is thatched with grass. Due to the rotten grass, there is currently a leak in the roof. The drought has made it very difficult to find roofing grass. As soon as I was accepted into the program, I set out with the intention of using some of the funds to purchase iron sheets that I would later use to construct a new roof over my home. Therefore, I spent $18 on two iron sheets when I received my transfer. Along with the iron sheets, I also purchased $16 worth of food for my family. Since I make so little money from my job as a motorcycle taxi, it is challenging for me to support my family. I occasionally have trouble finding clients, which prevents me from earning money and causes me to rack up debt by putting food purchases on credit. As I put in more effort to earn money to buy more food, I'm happy that my family have plenty to eat at the moment."

"I am hoping to have a larger farm for subsistence farming like bean, maize, vegetables and tomatoes. I have been farming for the past ten years to earn a living. Mostly I hire a piece of land due to insufficient funds. I am planning to expand this as I have so many responsibilities like providing for my children basic needs like food, clothing and education." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"I currently intend to achieve my motorcycle ownership goal. I currently charge a fee to transport passengers and luggage on a bicycle. I'm 51 years old and no longer have the stamina to ride a bicycle. As a result, I am unable to make enough money to support my four in-school children as well as my spouse. I've been saving up my prior transfers, and I still have plans to do so in order to hopefully buy a motorcycle in April. It will be a good fit for our household's revenue source because, at the very least, it uses less energy to run than a bicycle and makes more money."

"As the sole breadwinner of my family of seven individuals, I rely on charcoal burning for a living. The process of producing charcoal takes almost two weeks as am required to cut tree stumps before burning them to the end product. Also, due to the physical demands of the practice, the much I can make over that time are only three sacks of charcoal which generate around $10 in total once sold. Considering the high commodity prices, this amount can only afford food to last the household for only a week. This leaves us struggling with only a meal per day or no meal at all for the other week. By the time I received the transfer, we had starved for two consecutive days. So, I used $15 to buy food and we have not lacked to date. Since water has become very scarce in my area due to drought, I spent $4 to buy and ferry some on a motorcycle from a neighboring village. I saved the rest of the money intending to buy a goat next month."

"I am convinced that education will improve my children's lives and help them escape the poverty I am currently experiencing. I struggle to provide for all of my five children's educational needs because of low paying job as a motorcycle taxi, or "bodaboda." My new objective for the coming months is to use the funds from my subsequent transfers to pay my kids' tuition. They won't be expelled for having unpaid school fees as a result, allowing them to concentrate on their education." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"What I am hoping to accomplish this year and next year is to buy my Land in zwedru. Getting land in zwedru has been my dream even before the arrival of GiveDirectly, so accomplishing this means a lot to me because land is a valuable assets even my children children's will benefit in future." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)