"I felt very happy because it was my very first time handling that amount of money."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is knowing that i have settle my children 1st semester school fees this bring joy to me every morning."

"Everyday brings joy to me knowing that what i desired is being implemented through the transfer."

"I was so happy when my sister told me my transfer message came on the phone because i left my phone with her. I went Monrovia to cash my money out I really wanted to fix my house. When i received my cash I knew I could start with the house renovation, and thank God for GiveDirectly my dream has come to reality."

"The biggest challenge that I'm currently face with is seeing my spouse doing jobs that are not health friendly inorder to cater for me and are 1 year old son. Sometimes I spend the day with him in the bush helping him to burn charcoal just to take care of our basic needs."

"The biggest challenge that I'm currently face with is lack of reliable source of income to meet the basic necessities of my family. Many times I have to burned charcoal and have it sold inorder to sustain my family. Sometime buyers take the charcoal on credit and getting the money from them become serious problem. I will really appreciate any help I can get to improve the livelihood of my family."

"Currently, the shortage of food is the major hardship we are experiencing. Last year we were not able to make farm as such, it poses high food insecurity on us. We have been burning chart coal which is our major source of income and spending the money to gather food. Eventhough, we managed to have made a small farm this farming season but yet still, the yeild was very poor due to the late preparation, lack suffi6land space and the change in climate. As I speak to you now, we have not gone any further in to the harvest season but we have began buying food since. So food supply remains our major hardship."

"My challenge is finance. I want to educate my children, I want to build a house and many more depend on finance. If I had cash all what I am referring to as planned now would have been accomplishment. I have to cut now trees to produce fire coal to sell in order to earn cash and the cash from hard labor is not sufficient to sustain the household and at the same time carry out development. I understand that coal burning is harmful to the environment because it completely destroy the forest and you can see, there is no forest here now. Our children are not able to see the trees spices we saw and animals as well. So we are asking people who are protecting the environment to fund DiveDirectly because if we received this transfer, we will stop burning coal for sometime."

"My challenge now is my health, I have a stomach problem. At the end of every month, I can experience my stomach hurting so I can be worried whenever the month is about to end sometimes 24th onward. If I can go to the hospital to solve my stomach problem than my challenge is over because I will be able to go around to do my business."

"We spent most of the money that we got from GiveDirectly on constructing another kitchen. We have been having a grass-thatched one and over the years we have been experiencing a lot of challenges in it. When the grass gets old, it starts to rain in the kitchen and this results to a lot of mess because the food can be rained on. As a result, the grass needs to be replaced from time to time and getting the grass is a challenge, we incur costs of buying and transporting it. We have always wanted to construct another kitchen but we were not in a position to because most of the money that we get usually goes to the payment of school fees for our three children. We are therefore so grateful to GiveDirectly for making this dream come true for us."