María Edelmira
350 USD financed in January 2015
María lives in Medellín, Colombia. She has three children. Two of them are three years old, so she needed to find a profession allowing her to be near her children at the same time as generating money to purchase food and to educate them. With these requirements, she chose to sell merchandise, selling principally padded items and bed sheets. Now María looks for a loan to purchase clothing, household items, towels, etc. Her objective is to earn enough money to provide for her children.
Delfi
125 USD financed in January 2015
Delfi is a very creative and skilled 29-year-old woman. She lives in Sincelejo, Colombia. She is the mother of two teenagers, aged 14 and 17. She makes handicrafts with natural fibers, a skill that her mother taught her and that has passed from generation to generation. Delfi is a person of very low income who faces problems related to the insecurity of her job and the lack of capital. However, she continues to go forward and keeps this craft alive. She only needs a small push, a loan to buy natural fibers to make baskets, chairs, and other products.
Silvia
1000 USD financed in December 2014
Silvia, 25, lives in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She is a single mother to 6-year-old boy and has a shoes sales business since 2010. She is a generous and enterprising woman. She works as a street vendor in the South part of Santa Cruz, an area characterized by small commercial and manufacturing businesses. Silvia sells all kinds of shoes for both men and women. She works hard to find good merchandise: "I follow the latest fashions and know what to recommend for every occasion". For the future, she hopes to open a shop of her own so that she no longer has to work as a street vendor. Silvia will use this loan to stock her business with various models and sizes of shoes that she can sell over the coming holidays.
Agiagia
750 USD financed in December 2014
Agiagia is a 22 years old single mother of two children. She lives in Tufuiopa, Samoa where she makes and sells Elei printed material to earn a living. Elei is a material dyed with a mixture of colourful symbols which are significant to the Samoan culture. The material is taken through a tie&dye process which uses traditional wooden moulds. Agiagia has been doing this for four years and is now requesting a loan to buy material, designs, stencils, brushes, wooden carved moulds, fabric paint, and a cutter. She plans to use her profits to pay for her family's weekly expenses.
Dionicia
825 USD financed in December 2014
Dionicia is a 46 year-old cheerful and hard-working woman who lives in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua. She is a single mother of 5 children, 3 of whom are adults. Her 18-year old daughter is at her first year of university and her youngest child is 13 years-old. She started her second-hand clothes selling business 24 years ago, with the goal to provide for her children. She is requesting a loan to buy clothing items in Managua to be sold at affordable prices in the municipality of Puerto Cabezas. Her dream is to have a profitable business.
Mary
200 USD financed in October 2014
Mary is a widow with four children, three of whom go to school. They live in Kasese, Uganda. Mary has a retail business selling general merchandise. She also does farming for additional income. However, she is faced with a challenge of debtors and inadequate capital. Mary is a hardworking woman. She hopes to expand her business and educate her children. Mary is in need of money to buy millet flour, cassava flour, sugar, salt, soap, books and other general merchandise to sell.
