"Hunger and poor housing condition are the only challenges I am facing in my family. As of now, we don't have food since we didn't harvest anything this year from our farmland. When we manage to have food, we eat twice a day, thus, lunch and supper but most days we sleep on empty stomachs. To make matters worse our house doesn't offer us the comfort we need as it is cracked and it leaks whenever it rains."

"There are but two challenges that we are currently facing as a household. These are lack of food and poor housing. We don't farm so we rely on buying food. In order to find money to do that we need to get pieceworks, which on its own is also a challenge as they are scarce these days, and get paid then buy maize for food. My family needs to spend $15 on food, thus maize, a month but with the current economic situation we only manage to acquire $10 which is not sufficient, hence we are constantly struck with hunger. As if that's not enough, we don't find comfort from this house we are living in due to the fact that it leaks when it rains and this gives us restless nights as well as damages our household items."

"It's now exactly a year since the demise of my husband, Patrick Zaindi. It has not been easy for me and my son here, Prince Zaindi. I struggle to fend and provide for him. The biggest challenge for me has been low food stock levels since I have had to reduce my farm area from 4 acres to 3 acres and my harvest has therein been reduced as well. I reduced it so that I can easily manage to work on it alone. This has resulted in low yields. From my 6 bags of maize that I harvested this year, I am left with a single bag as of today. I worry that once this is depleted I will have nothing to feed my son with. This brings me constant worry."

"Back in 2018 I lost about 2 acres of my farm land to floods, this land got washed away. This has negatively impacted me and my family since we have been unable to attain a sufficient harvest from the 1 acre that is remaining. We used to get about 7 bags of maize from our field but currently we only manage to get a single bag of maize as food for the 4 of us. Due to this, we are facing a hunger crisis in my household at present, as the said bag only lasts 2 weeks. As I speak to you, this has already been depleted in April this year. Since then, we rely on pieceworks where my husband, Yohane Sifa is at rightnow, to get food."

"I find financial constraints being the most challenging issue in my household. At the moment, I have 6 children in school; 3 of them are in college, 2 in high school, and 1 in grade 4. Their school fees have drained us financially and this has left us desperate. Since I am a subsistence farmer and my husband is a primary teacher, our combined incomes are hardly enough to cater to all the expenses and this means depending on unreliable bursaries to support our children. What a desperate life! This has robbed away my joy as a mother since I am always disappointed to see my children at home seeking school fees."

"Gd has been so good to me and my family. Even people in my village are grateful for their support. In addition, something Gd needs to improve on is by bringing other programs to improve Liberia."

"In my opinion, what GiveDirectly does well in this program is that we receive the transfers in lumpsum amounts. This helps in planning as one is in a position to do something huge as compared to when the transfers are given in small instalments. Another thing that GiveDirectly does well is that the unlearned recipients are taught how to use mpesa. This has reduced the number of theft cases in the community as most of us managed to change our pins to a more secure code. To avoid household conflict, what needs to be done differently is enrolling all the individuals in the household. During enrollment, those individuals who did not have responsibilities by then were left out of the program yet these are the same people who steal from their old and vulnerable parents. Another thing that needs to be done differently is enrolling all the communities in a specific village for uniformity purposes and this will prevent too many complaints coming from the communities that are left out during the registration to the programs"

"Since my family is still young. I am planning to buy a piece of land to buy rentals. I do subsistence farming for a living, when the farm produce will be in excess, I will be selling out some of them to get money for buying the land. I will be building houses for rentals in the coming year and beyond, the money collected from the rentals will be taking care of the family's upkeep like food, clothing and school fees."

"In my opinion, what GiveDirectly does well in this program is that we receive the transfers in lumpsum amounts. This helps in planning as one is in a position to do something huge as compared to when the transfers are given in small instalments. Another thing that GiveDirectly does well is that the unlearned recipients are taught how to use mpesa. This has reduced the number of theft cases in the community as most of us managed to change our pins to a more secure code. To avoid household conflict, what needs to be done differently is enrolling all the individuals in the household. During enrollment, those individuals who did not have responsibilities by then were left out of the program yet these are the same people who steal from their old and vulnerable parents. Another thing that needs to be done differently is enrolling all the communities in a specific village for uniformity purposes and this will prevent too many complaints coming from the communities that are left out during the registration to the programs."

"I am a parent of five children. Two are in Secondary School, a boy and a girl, while the other is in college studying Information Technology in his first year. I used a total of kshs 20,000 to clear their school fees arrears that have accumulated for the past year. Before the transfers, I was living in a small grass-thatched house and it could not fit all my family members. The boys used to sleep in my neighbour's house and this was so inconvenient as they could go so early due to insecurity in my community as most homes do not have access to electricity. I used the remaining part of the transfers of kshs 30,000 to build a spacious decent house for my family. I am so grateful to GiveDirectly transfers."