"I bought cement and zinc with my transfer to renovate my mother's house."

"The recent money i received from Givedirectly, was used to pay some of my daughter tuitions. I also used part of my transfer to buy one used bike from my friend. The balance money was used to buy cement to plaster my house."

"I was on my way going to the farm when my phone alarmed. After reading my text, i decided to go strict to Buchanan to cash out my money. The joy was just too much for me. I got the money brought it home to my wife, before she telling her that it was Givedirectly that send me this money. She almost collapsed upon hearing the good news. Life has been so hard for me since i decided to settle down with my wife we could bear afford money to pay our house rent. Receiving this money has brought total joy to me."

"The biggest difference in my daily life now is, I was able to paid my wife hospital bulls, buy cement for my house, I was also able to buy enough foodstuff for my family. I'm so thankful to GiveDirectly for enrolling me on the program."

"I was able to buy Mattress, Food, Cement and Iron sheets to improved my leaking roof. The rest of the money I was able to paid my children school fees. I'm so thankful to GiveDirectly for making my dream come to passed."

"In my opinion givedirectly did everything well in my life and that of our village. Because of givedirectly there are so many new houses with in my village. Our children are all in school due to the help of givedirectly. Givedirectly has done everything well in my village. There's nothing that givedirectly hasn't done well."

"I was on my way to Monrovia when I received my alert on my phone. I call my husband and inform he about the transfer. I was very happy that afternoon when I received the payment from Givedirectly. I been struggling for a long time before Givedirectly came in my community. Now, with this money my life have started improving and there is a lot of happiness in my household."

"I am struggling to pay back the loan I took to buy two motorbikes. This is not been easy for me now that the transportation business is giving little return considering this season of a pandemic."

"I lack food almost all the time. In my old age, I can only farm a small parcel of land. With poor maize yields in yhi region, I harvested maize that only lasted me for about 5 months. Its completely finished now and I rely on my children who will see me through this famine season. Even though I am about to harvest another maize crop, I have difficulty in finding food at the moment. I will therefore use part of the transfer on food stuffs and ven to grow more crops to secure my future needs."

"The major challenge that we face is a shortage of food due to the continuous drought that affects our area. It does not allow us to do any meaningful farming and the food that we get from our farm is not sufficient for my family."