500 USD financed in April 2016
Blanca lives in La Estrela, in Colombia. She is a woman 53 years of age who has a business running a general store. She is married and has two children. Blanca is requesting a loan to stock her business with a full range of soft drinks and dairy, meat, and snack products. The reason for the loan is that she needs better income in order to be able to pay for her children’s education.
900 USD financed in April 2016
Alexa, from Lorenzo, Honduras, is 23 years old. She is married and lives with her husband and her child in their own house. She has worked for 7 years selling groceries in a business located in the community of Amapala, Valle, in the south of Honduras. At the age of 16, she began her business to be able to help with the household expenses, always with the support of her parents, and now that of her husband. Alexa is asking for the loan to purchase soft drinks, juices, sugar, rice, beans, butter, oil, wheat flour, corn flour, sweets, bread, etc. to stock the business well in this season since the tourists come and the sales are high. With the support of her third micro-loan, she plans to improve her income and get ahead. Her goal is to improve her business and her house.
1000 USD financed in April 2016
Erlyne, age 33, is from Haiti. She lives in Delmas and is single with no children. Six years ago, she started reselling food products from home. She carries out this activity in order to make a little money and meet her own needs. She wants to develop her business. She is taking a loan to increase her stock.
300 USD financed in April 2016
Milena lives in Soleda, Colombia. She is an enterprising young woman who took advantage of her location through which more affluent people travel in order to begin a small convenience store where she sells miscellaneous items. She began her business in her home in 2014. She has always been involved in business activities, but she decided to formalize her skills by opening her own business where she could sell directly to her customers. Milena wants to improve her store's merchandise selection. She would like to use the loan to purchase nail polishes, nail polish remover, nail files, scissors, gift paper and other items that are in high rotation. Her goal for the future is to expand her store and to improve her family's quality of life.
4400 USD financed in April 2016
In Novembre 2015, sparkles.lu was selected to participate to the International Bazar, a well-know charity event in Luxembourg. This is one of the biggest fundraising event in the country, gathering hundreds of volunteers and charities during a whole week-end, just before Christmas. In March 2016, all selected charities received a portion of the funds raised during the event and it was with great delightment that sparkles.lu got a whooping 4,000 EUR to help as many fisherwomen as possible in the Philippines! The funds have now been used to support 12 women entrepreneurs in the fishing sector. Indeed, many women are involved in this business: they fish by themselves and sell their catch on the market. Some also buy and sell dried fish. Most of the loans are used to buy new fish nets, fishing supplies, sometimes even a new engine. Our borrowers want to expand their business, to improve their livelihood, secure the future of their family and save money to send their children to college. One of our fishewomen is Rosalinda, mother of 5, living in Sagay. She needed 225 USD to buy fishing gear and other equipment. This was the 6th microloan of her carrier, all the other loans having been repaid with success. Rosalinda hopes that her hard work will help her reach her dream to save money, expand her business and continue to send her children to school.
150 USD financed in April 2016
Amina is Kenyan, she lives in Kaloleni. She is a married woman with one school-aged child. She owns a house that is without electricity and piped water. Her greatest monthly expenses are food and school fees. Amina operates a grocery stall at the market. She faces a challenge of high cost of transportation to her place of operation. She will use this loan to purchase green vegetables, 2 crates of tomatoes and onions.