Mrs. Yun Ky is 24 years old and lives in Kompong Cham province where she earns a living as a rice farmer as well as growing vegetable for sell, and began her business since 1990. She is married with one child, whom is teenager and attend school. Her husband, Mr. Preng Yon, is 27 years old...

resident of Kompong Cham Province, Cambodia, Mrs. Mok Touch earns a living growing mushrooms and raising pigs with her husband, earning around $5 per day. The couple currently resides with their two children, both of whom are single, one a local building worker who helps with the family's expenses...

Djuraboev Azam is 33 years old. He is the father of three children who are all in school. Azam also lives with, and cares for his parents, who are old and can not work. He is a high school graduate and decided to start car repair services instead of loitering in cities, looking for jobs that are hard to find...

Since 2004 Kholikov Kholmirzo has been a livestock farmer. He breeds calves, cows and sheep. He is married and has 2 children whom he needs to support and give a proper education to. Kholmirzo has improved his financial situation because he has been able to wisely use the loans he has received from IMON International to breed his animals...

Ms Yolanda Andus( the lady in the left) is 49 years old, married to a carpenter and has 3 children. Ms Andus is from Balangasan Dist. Pagadian City, a province of Zamboanga del Sur. She is a member of Paglaum Multi-Purpose Cooperative Pagadian Branch and is now on her 4th loan...

Emma Oga is 43 years old, married, and lives at Obay, Polanco Zamboanga del Norte. She has 2 children and both are in school. A mother always dreams for a better future of her children so she works diligently to earn an income. She is a bookkeeper of their barangay and her husband is a mason...

Felicia Asare is member of Cornerstone Group. She is forty-three years old and married with two kids, both of whom are in school. She lives with her family in a rented apartment in a suburb of the capital city, Accra...

Claudia Pamela Paredes Cardenas belongs to the Communal Bank 'Las Guerreras," located on Jr. Fernando Stall No. 187 in the city of Pucallpa, in the Calleria district. She is 21 years old, and is a very hardworking young owman,. She does not have children, is single, and her activity is cooking and baking...
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Whereas Gregoria is married, is 49 years old and has six children. She travels to the different markets of the region where she sells foodstuffs and buys grains. Furthermore, Gregoria and her husband sell natural products. Gregoria needs a loan of 600 soles, which will be invested in the purchase of natural products and rice...

Sae Sam is a grocer and owns a small grocery store in Tra Beak village in Takeo province, Cambodia. Her husband, Mr. Seas Chin, is a farmer who owns a plot of land to cultivate rice. His field has infertile soil affecting the growth of his crops...

Mr. Vith Uk lives in Samraung village in Takeo province, where he makes a living breeding ducks. Since his business is going well, he wants to expand it by buying more ducks and duck food. He hopes to increase his income and improve his family's living conditions with this loan...

Adwoa Nyamekye is forty-five years old. She is married and has given birth to eight children: three females and five males. Five of her children are currently in junior high and primary schools. The grown ups have completed and some are learning trades while others are also working. Adwoa’s husband operates a drinking bar in the locality in which they stay...

Abena Dagaati is fifty years old. She is married and has given birth to five children, two girls and three males. One of her children has completed junior high school. The rest are still in school. Abena’s husband is a farmer. She lives with her husband and her children in a rented apartment in a small town called Koforidua near Offinso...

Felicia Osaah is forty years old. She is a married woman and has four children: a girl and three boys. The first three are currently in the basic school. The last born has not reached school-going age yet, according to Felicia. Her husband is a store-keeper. He farms as well...

Abena Konadu is 49 years old. She is widowed and has six children, three of whom are boys and three of whom are girls. One of the children has completed the senior high school. The others are in the primary and the junior high school. She lives with the family in Koforidua, a small town not very far from Offinso in the Ashanti Region of Ghana...

Attaa Akyaa is 34 years old. She is married and has given birth to six children – one boy and five girls. Almost all of her children are in school. The last born is yet to start. She lives together with her children and husband in Koforidua, a small town near Offinso. Koforidua is a business and farming community in the Ashanti Region of Ghana...

Mary Kyere is 53 years old. She is married and given birth to seven children. She sells porridge and kose at her neighborhood. She lives and trades at Abofour in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Mary loves selling these foods, a business through which she obtains her daily bread to cater for her household...

Vera Safo is 37 years old and married. She has seven children and they are currently in school. She lives with her husband and their children in a family house at Abofour. Abofour is a busy market town in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. She enjoys trading so much that she started trading in her infancy when she stayed with her parents...

Ama Nyarko is a 40 year old woman. She is married and has five children. All her kids are in school. She lives with her husband in her matrimonial home, at Abofour a suburb of Offinso in the Ashanti region of Ghana. She is an achiever and a resourceful young woman. She loves selling goods, the business through which she makes a living...

Mariama Adams is 37 year old married and mother of two kids who are in school. She has been a food vendor for two years. She prepares and sells rice and stew and she has also added beans and gari to it. It is a delicacy many Ghanaian enjoy everyday either as breakfast, lunch or dinner. She also sells fried rice...

Lydia Nsiah is 30 years old. She is married and has given birth to four children, two of whom are boys and two of whom are girls. One of the children is in the junior high school. The others are in the primary school. She lives with the family in Koforidua, a small town not very far from Offinso in the Ashanti Region of Ghana...

Adwoa Mansa is 20 years old. She is married with no children and she is very happy. She lives with her family in Koforidua, in the Ashanti region of Ghana. She owns and operates a beauty salon in her neighborhood. Adwoa is a very skillful and talented hairdresser. She has two apprentices who are currently training to learn her skills...

Janixia del Socorro Tercero Solís is 31 years old, married, and has two children. Janixia’s economic activity is selling cosmetics and a variety of other products, and the location of her business is in her home. It’s been one year since she started this endeavor, due to her need to provide stable educations for her children...

Margaret Asantewaa, 25, is married with three children. All the kids are currently in school. She is a very resourceful and hard-working mother whose hard effort brings livelihood to the family. Margaret supports her kids through making and selling brooms. Selling brooms has a very big market share in Ghana...

Abdujalilov Nabi is 67 years old. He is married and the father of 3 children. Nabi is a hard-working man who has struggled to provide for his family and educate his children, who are today, working adults thanks to his example. Nabi is an enterprising man who constantly tries to make things better and to improve every day...

Ms. Tomasa del Carmen Cruz Ferrufino is 51 years old, single, and has 12 children, all of whom currently work. For more than 16 years Tomasa has been in this business; although it wasn't easy because she had to sell products on the streets. She started with pants, shirts, cosmetics and perfumes...

María Auxiliadora Salas Calderón is 47 years, single, and has three children. María sells general merchandise, and her business is located in the municipal market. María began this business three years ago, and little by little, she converted her business from one selling perfumes, creams, and other home products into a business selling clothing and shoes...

Group 29 has five members. They live in Village 5, Qu?ng Hung commune, a poor village in Thanh Hóa province, 156 km south of Hà N?i. Mrs. Ph?m Th? Thu is the group leader. Her family has faced serious financial difficulties ever since her husband passed away at an early age, leaving her to raise five young children alone...

Jazmín Lisseth de Leiva is 30 years old. She lives with her husband in Atiquizaya in the department of Ahuachapán. Jazmín and her husband run a diner, which began as an idea when both were looking for work but were unabled to find jobs which paid enough to survive on...

Hadiyaev Oblokul has always been a hard-working man who has made sure, from his young age, that his family never went without the daily bread. He is married and has four children. Oblokul has a grocery store where he sells different kinds of foodstuffs...

Mrs. Lurde Gonzalez founded this group. She is married to Mr. Carlos Acosta, and is the mother of two children. She specializes in shipping, and lives in the Fátima de C.D.E neighborhood. She is very grateful to the group's program and to Mujeres Emprendedoras (Enterprising Women) for the contact she has with her neighbors and friends to form the group in this area...

Mr. Isabelino Vera was born in the city of Puerto Pinasco, and he is married to Sara Daniela Ortiz. They have four children, all of whom are still young. They both dedicate themselves to selling used clothing, both out of their home and by traveling through the streets...

This bank is called "Cusco Sur" (South Cusco), and was founded 8 years ago, enabling the development of its original members up until the current day, and they continue to acquire new members, so that they too can have the opportunities that the others had. This bank is located in the central offices in the city of Cusco...

Kenja Tillobaev is forty-four years old, married and has three children. Kenja is a master tiler. His wife works at the Ministry of Emergency Management. Kenja needs this loan to finance a renovation of his big house. Kenja turned to Microinvest for help on recommendation of his neighbor, an old Microinvest client...

Safarov Shuhrat is 37 years old. He and his wife have one son, who is 6 years old. Shuhrat sells DVDs and CDs. He orders the delivery of the disks from the neighboring city of Khujand and tries to have all the new movies and concerts of the popular actors, singers, and others...

Raman Olaide is a 40-year-old married man with three children. To support his family, he sells motor spare parts. He is now requesting a loan in the amount of $350 (50,000 NGN) in order to purchase more motor spare parts for resale purposes...

Funmilola Adegoke is a 40-year-old married woman with four children. To support her family, she sells kerosene. She is hoping to expand her business, so she is now requesting a loan in the amount of $700 (100,000 NGN) in order to purchase more kerosene for resale purposes...

RK Adedokun is a 70-year-old married man with six children. To support his family, he sells stationery. He is hoping to expand his business, so he is now requesting a loan in the amount of $275 (40,000 NGN) in order to purchase more stationery for resale purposes...

Osas Orhiekpaiyo is a 36-year-old single man. To earn a living, he sells spare motor parts. He is hoping to expand his business, so he is now requesting a loan in the amount of $700 (100,000 NGN) in order to purchase additional motor parts for resale purposes...

Ms. Justine Arinaitwe has a grocery shop. She is a hard-working woman with 4 children who are school-going. Justine has 6 years experience in her business...

Augusta Idehen is 60 years old and married with 6 children. She has a tailoring shop where she sews lovely clothes for her customers. She also sells tailoring materials to her customers. She is requesting the loan amount of N 150,000 to purchase more tailoring materials to sell. She says thanks to Kiva lenders...

Juliana Alabi is 42 years old and married with 3 children. She sells fairly-used clothing and shoes. She is requesting the loan amount of N 100,000 to purchase more fairly-used clothes and shoes to sell. She says thanks to Kiva lenders...

Vumilia has owned a mini-shop (kiosk) in the Sakina neighborhood of Arusha for 4 years. She currently earns an average monthly profit of US$ 90. Every day she works at her business from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. She is requesting her first loan from BRAC Tanzania so that she can buy more items for her business...

Festus Ojeh is 33 years old and married with 2 children. He sells motor spare parts. He is requesting the loan amount of N 100,000 to purchase more motor spare parts to sell. He says thanks to Kiva lenders...

Kabiru is 32 years old and married with 2 children. He mills palm kernels to make palm oil. He also sells palm kernels. He is requesting the loan amount of N 100,000 to purchase more palm kernels to sell. He says thanks to Kiva lenders...

Christine Nabatanzi is the leader of her lending group in Lugazi. She is in her late 40s and a mother of 9 children; only 4 are still in school. Christine has a business selling fish where she buys dry fish from the surrounding landing sites of Senyi and Kiyindi at a lower price and sells to her customers in Ajjija as well as to those in Buikwe and Lugazi...

Toki Ishiola, 46 years old and married with four children, sells spare motor parts, and his wife owns a restaurant. He is requesting the loan amount of N50000 to purchase more spare motor parts to sell. He says thank you to all Kiva lenders...

Thirty-seven years old and married with two children, Kayode sells tyres. Hoping to expand this business, he is requesting the loan amount of N50000 to purchase more tyres to sell. He says thanks to all Kiva lenders...

Mamuna Issifu is thirty-eight years old. She is married and the mother of two children, a boy and a girl. She says her son is in the in the basic school while her daughter is in junior high school. Mamuna’s husband owns a corn mill in their community. He has hired workers who run the business daily...

Christiana Obour is thirty-eight years old. She is married and the mother of two children, a boy and a girl. She says her son is in the basic school while her daughter is in junior high school. Christiana’s husband sells a variety of gadgets such as video decks, mobile phones, television sets, radio sets, etc...