"Currently my challenge is lack of food. My family's staple food is nsima and from my previous harvest I only had 2 bags of maize which were depleted in 2 months time from there harvest in April this year. Ever since I have had to rely on casual labour to find food for myself and my 7 kids here and I tell you it hasn't been easy to find those pieceworks either. At present I only have a half full bucket of maize flour and I don't know where else to go after that is done."

"We are living in poverty because of no stable source of income. My husband goes to casual work but that isn't enough because he makes little money when the need is more than he makes. We have no Food, clothes, utensils and even fail to get medical assistance because of money for transport and medicine."

"Being this old, we fail to go out to work as well as we could when we were younger and end up staying hungry. This is because we don't yield anything from what we farm. We live off hand to mouth basis handouts pressure on us. We lack money and can't afford our basic needs hence living in poverty."

"The challenge is food. It's rainy season and were beginning to plant which is the time when we run out of food. To find money for food, my husband goes out to do business for us to eat. Be it selling goats or other commodities. I don't work or do business so that leave the whole responsibility on him. With the economy, business is slow and that leaves us starving."

"I used $100 of the transfer to pay school fees for my child who recently started secondary school education. I used another $200 to buy livestock as a form of investment. Another $120 was used to buy food for my family while $50 was used to till a piece of land here at home. The amount that remained was used to buy clothes for my three children and other basic needs for the family. I received the money when we had huge school fees arears making this a priority spending area and I thank God that I now have peace of mind having cleared the fee. The livestock investment shall go a long way in making me meet my needs and those of my children in the future. I can be able to sell some of the livestock and pay school fees in future or meet other needs of my family. I feel so much happy and relieved having spent the transfer in the ways that I did. This transfer has left me relaxed as I no longer rely entirely on odd casual jobs and I can also attend to my own farm and make good use of it."

"I would love to buy some building materials like zinc and pay my children school fees."

"I have bought mattress because that was my wish and desire, I was sleeping on the floor. The other amount was spent on musical set because I am a lover of music it brings me a lot of happiness whenever I listen."

"I was able to purchase zinc to reroof my house because I have experienced a lot of leakage during the raining season. During every rainy season, I have sleepless nights because of the rain."

"No NGO has ever come in this town to give out money which is $150, 000 Liberian Dollars. I believe this will seriously impact the town positively. For me, I wish that GiveDirectly will continue to provide assistance to people not only in this town but other communities."

"I was in the town when I got the message about the money, I felt so excited because I have been experiencing many difficulties. The first thing that I thought of was to build a house, where I live now is not mine."