"I paid USD 133.00 towards a motorbike and the balance was amount is in my saving."

""Upon getting the mobile money alert, I checked again and again to know whether this is true. I told my wife and we agreed on buying the colourful roofing sheets (zinc), blue, to be specific for our house in Zleh Town. We have paid for the zinc, and by God's grace when I received the second transfer we will start building our modern house"."

""Being able to repond to my children's education needs makes me feel like a father playing his fatherly role and this has made a lot big difference in my life. GiveDirectly program makes you feel like human being. I am grateful to GiveDirectly for this assistance"."

"In the next one year and beyond I look forward to buying an additional dairy cow and start a poultry keeping project as well. Having bought the first dairy cow that is yet to calve, I am motivated to save up enough money from a voluntary job that I do and from the farm produce that I get. I have some experience in poultry keeping and I am so much determined to start this business and correct the wrongs that I did the first time I did the project. All these, I am optimistic shall be made possible within the next one year or so."

"At first I heard some citizenry shouting outsde at the morning hour that GiveDirectly money has come, my helper helped me to checked my mobile money account, for sure we saw the amount of 35625LD. I immediately jumped up with absolute happiness and join my colleagues with the celebration."

"My most recent transfer is spent on the purchase of one mattress, one goat, and paid my children school fees with the rest."

"I spent my most recent transfer on buying two bundles of zinc and used some of it to pay my children school fees."

""Life with GiveDirectly had brought so much relieved and joyed to me. For the passed four years since my house broke down, I was not able to rebuild it due to financials constraints. For this reason my family and I had been moving from one relative's house to another and this brought us serious embarrassment. Now with transfers coming in from GiveDirectly, I have decided to rebuild my house.""

"My new goal is to start a small food outlet shop at our nearby market. This is because I had the experience of 2 years working in a small cafe. I was forced to stop this work after marriage due to lack of sufficient capital. I intend to start it so that I may have income that would support the education of my children. Currently, I am vending groceries in the village which is not that profitable to supplement my earnings from the tailoring."

"I spent portion of my money to buy 1000 brakes which caused 66.60USD. Also used 66.60 USD on our two kids school fees. Keeping the balance money to add it to the next transfer for zinc. Because we are presently living in a thatched house so i have decided to build a better house. I will be building 3 rooms with a shop house."