Norma
875 USD financed in November 2016
Norma is 38 years old. She is a single mother. She has a son and lives in a small village of the township of San Manuel, Cortes, which adjoins Caipules, in Honduras. For 6 years she has made and sold corn tortillas. Her business is located in her home and she sells her products in the morning and afternoon. She will use her loan to buy soft drinks, meats, flour, basic grains, candies, bread, cleaning products, and more items to expand her business and set up a mini-grocery store. Her goal is to continue growing to help pay for the needs of her family.
Phidelma
300 USD financed in November 2016
Phidelma is a married woman with six children, two of whom attend school. She lives in a rental house that neither has electricity nor piped water, Changamwe, Kenya. Her greatest monthly expenses are food and school fees. For the past six years, she has operated a fruit juice selling business, selling from home to her neighbors and passersby. She faces a challenge of seasonality and high cost of transporting raw materials. With the loan, she wants to purchase sacks of passion fruit, mangoes, and other fruits for making fruit juice for resale.
Fatuma
300 USD financed in November 2016
Fatuma is a single woman and she has two children, all of whom attend school. Fatuma owns a house that neither has electricity nor piped water in Kisauni, Kenya. Her greatest monthly expenses are food and school fees. Fatuma has operated a charcoal selling business, selling from home to her neighbors and passersby. She mentioned transportation as a major challenge in her business. With the loan, she wants to purchase bundles of firewood for resale.
Linet
550 USD financed in November 2016
Linet is a single woman who has 2 children. She lives in Kiwi, Kenya. She operates a book shop and she has been involved in this business for 2 years. Her business is located in a good area and her primary customers are locals. She describes her biggest business challenge to be inadequate working capital. She will use the loan to buy more stock of books. Her business goal is to have a wholesale business within 5 years. This is her second microloan. The previous loan was repaid successfully. She will use the anticipated profits to puchase additional stock
Shirley Johana
375 USD financed in November 2016
Shirly is an entrepreneurial 26 year old who works as an employee in a store that sells miscellaneous items. With the resources obtained from that store's liquidation she managed to open her own store in her neighborhood in the town of Soledad, Colombia. This way, Shirly managed to start her own business and sell all kinds of school supplies from the comfort of home. Now she's applying for her first loan with the Mario Santo Domingo Foundation to improve her business' inventory and capitalize on the holiday season by investing in notebooks, color pencils, pencils, stationery, and accessories for all occasions. Her goal for the future is to open a bigger store and support her family.
Sui
400 USD financed in November 2016
Sui is 21 years old and single with 1 child. She lives in Vaigaga, Samoa. She makes and sells elei printed material to earn a living and has been doing this for 3 years. She has requested a loan to buy wooden carved designs, material, fabric paint, stencils, brushes, rollers and a new cutter. She plans to use her profits to pay for her family's weekly expenses.
