Murod is 29 years old, married, and has two children. His wife works as a pharmacist in a drugstore. Murod himself sells cereal crops at the Kostakoz market. In addition he feeds and sells livestock. He currently has 7 sheep on his property...
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Carmen has two children, both of whom are small. Almost six months ago, her husband abandoned her. As a result, she is completely dedicating herself to her work and to her small children for whom she had decided to work more...
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Safia Begum baji is a 41-year-old married lady and a citizen of a city called Kot Radha Kishan for the past 15 years. She completed her education up to 5th standard. Her husband's name is Shafiq Akram and he is a fruit seller by profession. He has been selling fruit for the past 10 years...
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Razia baji is a 50-year-old married lady and has been a citizen of a city called Kot Radha Kishan for the past 20 years. Kot Radha Kishan is famous for its livestock because mostly people work at this business to support their families...
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Zubaida baji has been a citizen of a city called Kot Radha Kishan for the past 15 years. Kot Radha Kishan is famous for its livestock because mostly people work in this business to support their families. Zubaida baji is married to a man whose name is M. Abdullah and he is involved in a dairy business. He has a buffalo at his house...
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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...
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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...
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Musalam Khudoyarovna Sultonova was born in 1959, she is a widow and has four dependents. After her husband's death she decided to start her own business to be able to feed the family. She sells children's and women's clothing. Her inventory consists of women's skirts, pants, t-shirts and dresses...
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Khursheed begum baji is a 48 year old married lady who has lived in Pakpattan, Pakistan for the past 15 years. Pakpattan city is famous for its shrine places, which people visit to make wishes. Her husband's name is Niaz ahmad who is a daily wage laborer. She is the mother of one son who works in a factory...
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Parveen baji is a 43-year-old married lady and has resided in a city called Borewala, Pakistan for the past 25 years. Her husband's name is Rahmat Masih and he is a driver by profession. Parveen baji is the mother of two kids: one son and one daughter...
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Naseem akhtar baji is a 53 year old married lady who has lived in Pakpattan, Pakistan for the past 15 years. Pakpattan city is famous for its shrine places. People come to this city to visit the shrine places to make wishes. Her husband's name is M. Din, who has been a ticket checker for the Railway for the past 30 years...
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Rukhsana baji is the wife of Bashir Masih and resides in a city called Borewala, Pakistan for the past 26 years. Her husband runs a grocery shop in the community. People come to him to buy groceries for their houses. He has a good reputation from his behaved with the customers...
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Ghulam Fatima baji is a 40 year old married lady, and a citizen of a city named Arifwala, Pakistan for the past 15 years. Her husband's name is M. Idress who has a utensils selling business, which he has done for the past 20 years. Ghulam Fatima baji helps her husband by selling utensils in the community...
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Shamim baji is a 56-year-old married lady and has resided in a city called Borewala, Pakistan for the past 40 years. She couldn’t get an education because her parents couldn’t afford her education expenses. Her husband's name is Rahmat Masih and he is a wood seller by profession. He has been selling wood for the past 25 years...
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Irshad baji is a 42-year-old married lady and has been a citizen of an area of the city of Lahore called Ismail Nagar, Pakistan for 20 years. She is an uneducated lady but lives with a dream to give her children a better future. Her husband's name is Bhola Masih and he is a driver by profession, driving an auto-rickshaw (a local three-wheeled motor vehicle)...
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This village bank, which consists of 18 members, is located in Kokor Pir village in Kampong Cham province. The members plan to use the loan for different purposes...
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Twenty-three people living in Srey Snom village in Kandal province comprise this village bank loan, and they will use the loan for various purposes...
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Thirty-one people, living in Tuol Khsach village in Kampong Cham province, comprise this village bank loan, and they will use the loan for various purposes. Mrs. Leang Srou, the 49-year-old village bank president, is a farmer who owns a piece of land to cultivate rice...
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Eleven people in Boeng Tras village, in Kampong Cham province, have formed a village bank loan group and Mrs. Navy Bun is the village bank president. She owns a small restaurant where she sells rice soup as a breakfast food to the villagers. Her husband, Mr. Kul Saroeun, is a fisherman who catches a small quantity of fish to support the family...
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Mr. Trang Nheb lives in Thmor Kor village, in Kandal province. He and his wife, Mrs. Keo Srey are farmers who own a small piece of land to cultivate vegetables. With this land, they face an obstacle. They do not have enough money to grow mangoes...
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Mrs. Vu Thi The, 46 years of age, lives in Quang Xuong district, Thanh Hoa province. She has participated to the Fund since 2007. Her family has 3 children who are grown up and can support the works in the family. Her husband is a driver and her son works in Le Mon Port...
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Señora Marcelina is a member of the communal bank, "Mujeres de Villa Del Lago II" in the district, province, and department of Puno. She is 46, married, and has two children who are her dependents. With her first loan of 500 nuevos soles, she purchased garlic to sell wholesale. She has worked with the communal bank for almost 5 years...
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Dilshod is 24 years old. He is unmarried and is helping his parents by taking care of the family's every day expenses. Dilshod has his own store to which he devotes a lot of attention. He started his small business three years ago with the financial help of his parents...
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Zavkiddin Todjidinovich Ismoilov was born in 1984, he is married and has one child. His family lives in Dushanbe in the Sino region. He has high education. Zavkiddin began his business career four years ago by selling mobile phones. Later after acquiring some experience and capital he rented a dealer center to sell phone cards...
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This village bank which consists of eighteen members is located in Kdey Thnot village in Kampong Chhnang province and they plan to use the loan which they have obtained for different purposes. Mr. Bunthoeurn Am is the village bank president who has been selected by the members. He makes stoves to sell...
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Mrs. Cheng Khieng Suo is the village bank president for eighteen members, located in Kdey Thnot village in Kampong Chhnang province. They plan to use the loan which they have obtained for different purposes. She owns a small store where she sells food to the villagers and passers-by...
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Catana Palaghea is 54 years old, and she lives in Basarabeasca district, Carabetovca village, in the Republic of Moldova. Her family has 2.64 hectares of agricultural land, plus an additional 0.5 hectares of agricultural land which belongs to her parents...
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Abdukahor Mirzorahimov is a 50 year old man with four children who sells groceries at a market in the city of Khujand. He has been in sales since Soviet times; it is his profession...
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Masuma is a 42 year old woman, married with one child. She sells men's clothing at a market. She travels to Istaravshan to buy the goods. She has a small vending space, and used a loan to buy winter inventory. She already wants to obtain a second loan. The first loan she completed successfully...
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Carmen Beatriz is an enterprising young woman who has found the opportunity to do business without neglecting the care of her home and her small son. She sells women's sweaters and traditional clothing. She buys the clothing wholesale in the capital and then sells them to neighbors, friends and fellow church-goers near her home in the Cruz Blanca village near the city of San Juan Sacatepeques...
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Valentina, the leader of this group, is an active and optimistic woman who has been able to maintain her family by selling used and new clothing. She lives in Los Pomos, a very needy community located in Cotuí, in the central part of the country. Her husband produces and sells cassava bread...
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This group consists of five young women who have decided to change their lives by improving their small businesses with the first loan they’ll receive from FSMA. The group leader, Maria Isabel, still attends public school and she’s the mother of 3 children. Los Pomos, the community where Maria Isabel lives, is totally consumed by poverty...
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My name is Rubina and I have lived in Lahore Pakistan for the past 25 years. My husband name is Ashiq Maish, who has owned a scrap business for the past 18 years. I have five children: three sons and two daughters. I make embroidered dresses and sell each dress for $2. I complete approximately 10 embroidered dresses per month and earn $20...
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Mumtaz baji is a 41 year old married woman and resides in Lahore, Pakistan. Her husband, Barkat ali, is a painter by profession and sells paints as well. Mumtaz baji is the mother of three sons. For the past 20 years, Mumtaz baji has been a seamstress and sews clothes by taking orders from her neighborhood...
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My name is Musarat and I reside in Lahore, Pakistan. I have been living in this city for the past 14 years. I completed my education until the 8th standard and couldn’t study further because of my father’s low income. My husband's name is M.Tahir Baig who has a decorative embroidery business...
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Nusrat baji is a 29-year-old woman who resides in Walton in Lahore, Pakistan, where she has been living for the past 20 years. Her husband, Maqsood Ahmad, is a butcher who runs a butcher shop in the community. He sells chicken meat...
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Naila baji is the wife of Maqbool Bashir. Mr. Bashir makes wooden decorations and sells them in several gift shops. He learned this art from his father, because this is their family business. Naila baji resides in Walton in Lahore, Pakistan, where she has been living for the past 15 years...
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Shamim baji is a 51-year-old woman and the wife of M. Aslam, who has sells construction supplies. He has been in this business for the past 10 years. Shamim baji resides in Kasur, Pakistan. She owns a two-room brick house where she has been living for the past 14 years. She is the mother of five children: four sons and one daughter...
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Businesswoman Marta Lorena Martínez Pérez is 38 years old and has two children who are students. She is a single mother. For the last eight years she has run a small store where she sells grains, beef, chicken, drinks, and a variety of other products. Through her business she has been able to support her two children as she does not receive support from their fathers...
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Rukhsana baji is a wife of Amanat Ali and lives in Riwind, Pakistan. She has been living in this city for the past three years. She completed her education until 5th standard. She couldn’t study more due to the poor conditions of her house. She got married in the age of 18. Her husband works in a factory and earns $4.00 to $5.00 per month...
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Rashida baji is a 48 year old lady and a wife of Sharif Masih. Her husband has a cardboard selling business. Rashida baji resides in Riwind, Pakistan. She has been living in this city for the past 36 years. She is a mother of five children: three sons and two daughters. Her first two sons work in a factory...
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Parveen Akhtar baji is a wife of M.Ameen and lives in a city named Borewala in Pakistan. She has been living in this city for the past 33 years. She is the mother of five sons. Her elder son is a painter of doors and windows of houses, the next son makes jewelry boxes, the next works in an army, and her younger sons are in 8th Standard...
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Nisaran baji is a wife of Mahdi Hassan and resides in a city named Borewala in Pakistan. She has been living in this city for the past twelve years. She is the mother of five children: three sons and two daughters. All of her children are enrolled in a local school in her neighborhood...
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Kurbonhotun Niaytbekova was born in 1976, is married and has two children. Kurbonhotun is a nurse in an Interior Ministry medical center in Dushanbe. She wants to improve her family's living standards, and she decided to do some repairs of their home...
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Mrs. Sarum Kok is a villager in Ream Ankdeouk Village in Kampong Chnang Province; she is a widow with two children who are both employed in a garment factory. She is a fruit seller in the local market, but as a widow it is difficult to make ends meet in her household...
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Mrs. Farda is married and the mother of two children. She sells maize in one of the Lome suburban areas called Agoe Assiyeye. This is her primary source of income so she can take care of her children as well as complete her own education. Her business is currently flourishing, especially as it nears the end of this year...
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Sugran baji is the wife of M.Irdress and lives in Riwind, Pakistan. She is the mother of four children: three sons and one daughter. All of her children are enrolled in a local school in her neighborhood. M. Idress is a driver by profession and drives a rented auto-rickshaw (a local three-wheeled motor vehicle)...
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Shazia baji is the wife of M.Yunas and lives in Riwind, Pakistan. She has been living in a two room brick house for the past 20 years. Shazia baji is a mother of five children: three daughters and two sons. All of her children are enrolled in a local school in her neighborhood. Shazia baji’s husband has owned an animal food selling business for the past ten years...
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Mrs. Tem Hum is a villager in Trapaing Tra Village in Kampong Cham Province. She is a poultry breeder who raises ducks. Since this business is going well, she wants to expand it and decided to ask for a loan to buy more ducks for breeding. Her husband, Mr. San Phany, is a farmer who owns a small piece of land where he cultivates rice to earn a living...
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Kosar baji is a wife of Bashir Ahmad. They reside in a city named Pakpattan, Pakistan. She is 40 years old and a very active lady. Kosar baji is a mother of two children, one son and one daughter. Her son is a carpenter. Her daughter reads in the 5th standard grade...
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