Olimpia
200 USD financed in August 2015
Olimpia, age 41, lives in Gotera, El Salvador. She studied until second grade. For economic reasons, and because of the danger involved in crossing the rivers, she did not continue studying. Today, she lives with her partner and has a seventeen-year-old son who is studying in high school. Olimpia has been working selling tortillas for four years. She decided to set up a tortilla stand on her own initiative, because previously, she used to work making handicrafts with reeds. She needs the loan to purchase corn and a griddle for making the tortillas. Olimpia dreams of having better earnings, and of improving her home.
Marjorie
150 USD financed in August 2015
Marjorie lives in Bandera in the Philippines. She is 36 years old and has 3 children to provide. 6 years ago she started running her sari-sari store to earn a living. Despite the small income it generated, it was just sufficient to support the daily family needs. Marjorie is asking for a loan to buy additional stocks for her store in order for her to increase her profits. Marjorie's plan for her future is to expand business to support her children’s education.
Sukirani
200 USD financed in August 2015
Sukirani is a 44-year-old rural woman from the small village of Gokul Singhabati, Kandi in West Bengal (India). She is a mother of four children (two daughters and two sons). Her daughters are married. She is illiterate and can only sign her name. Sukirani is engaged in a cottage cheese business with the help of her two sons. Her husband works in the farming sector. Sukirani buys milk from different dairy farms and prepares cottage cheese and paneer in her home to sell in the markets as well as in the local sweetmeat shops. Now Sukirani wants to expand her business. Thus, she needs more milk. Due to a lack of adequate capital, Sukirani applied for a loan to purchase milk in a bulk amount. She hopes this loan will give a boost to her business and improve her family’s financial status. She dreams of opening a sweetmeat shop in the market in the future.
Mom
500 USD financed in August 2015
Mom, 45, lives in a community of Kompong Cham province, Cambodia. She has four children. To make a living and support her family, she manages and operates a farming business in a small rice farmland which is located near her house. Beside this she also involves with a fishery. On average, she is able to make an earning of USD 3.00 a day. She has been in this career for more than twenty years. Recently, her fishing is running badly because she has not enough fishing material. That is why she is applying for a loan to buy some fishing materials. This loan will make a great contribution to develop her career as well as her living standard. She is thankful for this financial support.
Ra
500 USD financed in August 2015
Ra is a 36-years-old-woman living in Kampong Cham province (Cambodia). She is married and is the mother of three children. She has been growing rice and soybean for eighteen years as the main source of income for her family. She occasionally works for others for a fee to provide better support for her family’s needs. Having grown unhealthy and being destroyed by pests, the crop produced low outputs, and it became a challenge to her rice farming business. Ra decided to apply for a second loan. The previous loan, which enabled her to improve her standard of living, was paid back successfully. She will use the new loan to support her soybean farming business by paying plowing and planting fees. She hopes to improve her business so that she can get higher crop yields.
Basanti
175 USD financed in August 2015
Basanti is a 31-year-old married woman from the small village of Latapota in Falakata (India). She is blessed with three children (two daughters and a son). She attended school until grade 1 and her husband studied until grade 8. One of her children reads in grade 1 and the other one is engaged in farming while her daughter is married. Basanti's husband is a farmer by profession who has been working on his own land for many years. Basanti looks after her household work and after that, she starts her agricultural activities. Together, they mainly grows rice paddy along with other seasonal vegetables. As farmers, they have a great passion for this profession, as all day long, without regards for climatic hazards; they go to look after their crops. The couple works tirelessly to provide financial sustenance to their family. They have many good customers for their polite and simple behavior and supply of good quality crops at a cheaper rate. Like the other farmers, they also dream of extending and improving their production. That is why Basanti is requesting a loan for the purchase of good quality paddy seeds, compost and fertilizer. This loan will be a great help because it will allow her to be vigorous in maintaining good production for her family’s well-being. She is very much thankful to her generous lenders.
