"As an uneducated woman who largely depend on the forest for survivors, educating my children is my key priority. I feel sometimes discourage because I am uneducated, and this is the cause my children and I are living in such a remote environment. I believe when they are educated, my future will not be in this bush, so I have planned to use my transfer towards my children's education. Though, I have 4 children, one is living with my anty in Fish Town, the remaining three are here with me and I am the only person responsible for them. I will be very happy if I am eligible to receive cash grant from GiveDirectly because it will help with my children's education."

"Man of my age, I have not built my dream house. See the house I am currently living in, it does not represent me at all. During the rainy season, the rooftop leaked so much and we have to move our bed from one place to another. I feel so bad about the situation and is embarrassing. If I am eligible to receive cash grant from GiveDirectly, I will use my transfer to build a zinc house so my household can sleep in without embarrassment during the rainy season."

"I felt very happy when I received this money. Because I'm renting in someone's house, and I don't want to continue renting. So, I have decided to pay my rent with about 20% of the money, to repair my power saw and to start up my own building."

"I just want to tell Givedirectly thanks for their tireless efforts towards my life. Through Givedirectly i was able to pay daughter in Monrovia school fees. My plan is change my house roof which i have pay for three bundles of zinc. I'll also invest some of my transfer in my business. My dreams is to some day became an international business woman."

"The money i received from Givedirectly was used to pay for three bundles of zinc. I also bough mattress and some others things. The balance money will be use to pay for planks and workmanship. Am so happy that my dreams are coming to past gradually through the help of Givedirectly program."

"To me, GiveDirectly has done lots of good things for us. We are now capable of building our own houses in our communities unlike before, there was no means of building a house easily."

"No, I don't have any new goal. I'm still working with my old planned, by building a new house. I have lots of children and I don't want them to suffer in the future."

"I am planning to buy 2 bundles of zinc along with 5 packs of assorted nails for my house project . I will used part of this transfer to pay two construction engineers to start building my house. Thanks to Givedirectly for the cash support. I believe that when I build and attached shop room to the house, I will become a big business person in this village from selling."

"It was in the morning and I had just woken up and busy with my morning duties when I thought of checking on my phone which I had placed beside my bed last night. I went to get it and to my surprise, I found out that I had a mobile money provider SMS. I decided to check it as I kept asking myself who could have sent me money at this early morning. I was so happy when I learnt that the message was bearing good news of us having received KES 55000 from GiveDirectly. I was filled with so much joy that I immediately called my husband who had already gone out. He was so happy when I told him what had transpired. He told me to keep the money safe and wait for him so that we could plan together on how we were going to spend the cash."

"It was almost 11 pm night time and I had fallen asleep. Suddenly, I heard my phone ringing and this jolted me from my sleep. I wondered what it was all about as I reached out for my phone. I found out that I had a new message and on opening it I was surprised to learn that it was an SMS saying that we had received the promises transfer from GiveDirectly. I was so happy on seeing this. My wife whom I thought had fallen asleep woke up asking me what was going on. I shared with her the good news and she was so happy too since we knew that the transfers were going to change our lives for the better."