April Joy is 20 years old and already married to Jayson who is a farmer in their village. They are living a simple life in Annayatan, Enrile, Cagayan. The is an agricultural community where farming is the main source of income of most residents. April is an electronic load retailer in their village. She sells cell phone loads. In this way, she was able to assist her husband in providing their basic needs...
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Peanut butter making and vending is the business chosen by Cristina. She lives in Calao East, Santiago City with her children. She is 43 years old and married to Ronald. The couple wanted to double their income from their peanut butter business thus they aim to borrow loan from KIVA lenders amounting to PHP4, 000 as additional business capital...
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Mother Blessings is a group of 5 borrowers led by Watta Mentoe. They live in Kolahu, Lofa County, Liberia. Watta is 38 years old and married. She has 3 children, ages 3-9. Watta was unable to attend school because, although she enjoyed it, the cultural norm was for girls to rely on their husbands to provide and, therefore, school was considered unnecessary...
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“To become successful in life, we must stay patient and hard working” this is the guiding principle of Marivic. She is a hard working mother and a loving house wife of Rafael. They live peacefully in the rural community of Barangay Salamague, Lamut, Ifugao with their six children...
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Felipa Balucan, a resident of Gusa, Calatunan, Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte. She is 33 years of age, married with 4 children. Three of them are already in school. Her husband is a company driver. She admit that depending so much with her husband's income is really not enough. So she thought of raising pigs at her backyard...
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Help Me Go Ahead is a group of five borrowers. It is headed by Sambi Metore, who lives in remote Kolahu city in rural Lofa county, the breadbasket of Liberia. Sambi is thirty years old, married, and has two children, ages one and three. She also cares for three children orphaned in the war...
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God Blessing is a group of 5 borrowers who are led by Mbowolee Smith and live in Kolahu, Lofa County, Liberia. Mbowolee is 31 years old, married, and has 4 children ages 6-12. She also cares for 2 children who were orphaned in the war...
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Jarwolie is 29 years old and married with three children aged 1-9. She also takes care of one child who was orphaned in the war. Her eldest is in the 3rd grade. She was unable to attend school herself because, although she enjoyed it, the cultural norm was for girls to rely on their husbands to provide, and therefore school was considered unnecessary...
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Muneer operates a grocery store in his neighborhood.He is 58 years old and a father of four kids who are currently in school.He sells products like rice,canned foods and drinks,candies,evaporated milk, etc.
The money he is asking for will be invested in buying more merchandise for his store ,in turn,will allow him to provide better services to his customers.He thanks you all for your support...
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Serious Business People is a group of 5 borrowers, led by Famata Armah, living in Kolahu, Lofa County, Liberia. Famata is 43, married and has 3 children, from newborn to 3. Famata was unable to attend school although she enjoyed it, because the cultural norm was for girls to rely on their husbands to provide, and therefore school was considered unnecessary...
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Charity is 28 and single. She has been selling food for some time now. She is hoping for a loan of N50, 000 to purchase more food to sell. She says thanks to all KIVA lenders...
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Patrick has requested a loan of Ksh 60,000 in order to add to his stock of maize flour, wheat flour, oil and beans. He has been in this business for the last five years...
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Gbemisola is 44 years old and married with four children. She has a grocery store where she sells provisions like noodles, toothpaste, detergent, etc. Gbemisola hopes for the loan amount of N120, 000 to purchase more provisions to sell. She says thanks to all that made this loan possible...
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Née en 1966 à Kplaba où elle réside encore, Madame DENYO Afi est une femme très active qui se soucie beaucoup pour la scolarité des ses enfants. N’ayant pas elle-même eu l’opportunité de s’instruire, elle se bat pour que ses enfants soient éduqués, malgré la précarité dans laquelle elle vit avec son mari et leurs six (06) enfants...
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KPESSE Honorine Afi est une femme de 47 ans mariée et mère de 4 enfants. Elle est revendeuse de cuvette de plastiques à kpalimé. Avec ce prêt, Afi voudrait élargir son étalage en achetant en gros des plastiques pour venir revendre à kpalimé. Dans l’avenir, elle aimerait être une grossiste...
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Sherill Jane Asuncion is a resident of Barangay Vista Alegre in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya. She is now 27 years old and finished a secondary level of education. Due to financial difficulty, she was not able to pursue her studies in college...
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Khady Diassy is 65 years old and she has been a member of the Community Bank "Lyndiane-2-Pont". She has no children in her care but in order to cover her basic needs she manages a small business. The loan will be invested in the sale of seafood in the local market. She will repay the loan in full in one installment at the end of the 6-month term...
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Melodia Gomez lives in Balik Balik Sindangan, Zamboanga del Nort. She is 43 years old, married and has five school-aged children. To make a living, she runs a sari sari (or variety) store and a binangkal, or Filipino snack-making business. Melodia has been in these lines of work for more than three years and earns approximately 3,000 PHP a month...
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Maren Akinyi is a 40-year-old lady. She is married to Austine and they have two children. She is in the business of selling second hand clothes in Migori, a populous town about 300 miles from the capital city Nairobi. Her clients mainly comprise the low income group, and she has been in this business for six years. She gets her stock from Nairobi and sells at a profit...
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Mrs. Aminata Dicko, 48, is married and the mother of 8 children. She lives in a monogamous family with her husband and children in the Pélengana Sud neighborhood of Ségou (fourth administrative region of the Republic of Mali)...
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Munira sells plastic rubber and baby things; she has been in the business for a long time now and she is 40 years old and married with 5 children. She is requesting for the loan amount of N100, 000 to purchase more plastic rubber and baby things to sells. She says thanks to all KIVA lenders...
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Wole is into poultry business and has been in the business since 2001. He is 37 years old and married with a child. He hopes for the loan amount of N100000 to purchase more poultry birds to sell. She thanks all her kiva lenders...
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Paullina sells foodstuff. She is 48years old and married with 5 children. She has been in the business for long. She hopes for the loan amount of N70, 000 to purchase more foodstuff to sells. She says thanks to all KIVA lenders...
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Aurea Ramil is 43 years old. She is married to Pedrito, who works as a farmer in their village. They have two children: Precious Ayse - 16 years old, second year college and Ashley, 3 years old. The family is living a simple life in the rural village of Cutog Grande, Reina Mercedes, Isabela. Aurea aims to give her family with a progressive living. This is the reason why she is doing her best in the business to become successful...
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Jennifer is 49 years old and married to Felipe, a construction worker. They have a nine year old son named Jeffrey and he is already in grade four. They are six in the family living together with her parents and nieces at Barangay Cutog Grande Reina Mercedes, Isabela...
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Felicidad is applying for a loan amounting to PHP5, 000 as additional business capital from Kiva lenders. The loan will be used to improve her general store business by purchasing additional merchandise. She is 52 years old, married to Domingo, a farmer in their village...
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El grupo las solidarias, han trabajado durante 7 años atras,en la compra y venta de ropa tipica usada y nueva para sostenimiento de sus familia y de ellas misma, ya que en este tiempo es dura la vida pero ellas tienen la certeza de seguir creciendo y luchando para sacar avante a sus hijos y poder salir avante vendiendo sus productos en otras areas...
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el grupo Las Luchadoras esta formado por 3 mujeres las cuales se conocen desde hace muchos años atras, a continuacion se detalla las diferentes actividades que ellas realizan para ganarse la vida...
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Gigimi Musa is the leader of his lending group in Kayunga and is married with six children aged 16 – 2 years. He has had a business tailoring and selling clothes in Kavule for twenty-nine years. He deals in finished (ready-made clothes) and unfinished clothes (those he makes himself), and in a week, he is able to make 40,000/= as profits...
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Linda Umpay is from the city of Aloran. She is 31 years old. Linda is married. To make a living, Linda owns & operates a "sari-sari" store business venture in the retail sector running a general store. While not the only means for generating revenue, the main source of income for the business comes primarily from selling a variety of different products in the local community...
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Gibeon C1 is a group of 8 farmers in Taloitan Village, Nekamese Subdistrict – Kupang District of East Nusa Tenggara Province. Taloitan is a small village which is situated about 37 km from Kupang City. Many coconut and banana trees grow in this village...
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Ismah Sekabira is the leader of his lending group in Mukono. He is a hard working boda boda cyclist in Mukono for a very long time and because of his down to earth nature, Ismah has a number of loyal customers that will always wait for him even if he has other customers to take...
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Nantale Rosemary is the leader of her lending group in Lugazi. She is 36 years old and married with 5 children with ages ranging from 20 to two. She also cares for five dependents. Rosemary operates a business where she makes and sells waragi, a local brew. She has also been a clothes dealer for 15 years...
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Ana es una mujer muy carismática y trabajadora, tiene 51años y vive sola en un cuarto alquilado, donde también implementó su tienda de licores. Son 20 años los que han pasado desde que Ana dejó su querida Madre de Dios (departamento peruano límite con Brasil) y cuando llegó a la ciudad de Juliaca, se propuso salir adelante por su propio esfuerzo...
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Mary Nakatudde is a determined and hard-working lady. She has run a retail shop and a waragi (Ugandan beer) business for 7 years in Luwayo. She is a single mother of 7 children aged 32-12 years. She also cares for 4 dependents. She is happy to say that her previous loans have enabled her children attend school...
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Betzabeth es una joven madre de 24 años, vive al lado de su esposo y sus 3 hijos en una casa arrendada. Hace 6 años empezó vendiendo comida de forma ambulante y en la actualidad tiene una tienda de comestibles, donde recientemente implementó una sección de útiles escolares...
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Agnes, 50 years old and married with one child, sells cosmetics. She is requesting the loan amount of N100,000 to purchase more cosmetics to sell. She says thanks to all Kiva lenders...
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Reina Leonor Guevara Mancia 34 años de edad reside en Cojutepeque municipio de Cuscatlán. Reina vive con su esposo quien trabaja como comerciante y sus dos hijos menores de edad, y estudiantes. Reina posee su negocio hace diez años es una venta de frutas y boquitas ubicada a los alrededores del Instituto Escolar Nacional de la zona...
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Titilayo sells drinks and she has been in this business for the past seven years. She is requesting the loan of N140,000 to purchase drinks to sell, so as to be able to meet the demands of her customers. Her customers appreciate knowing that she will always have what they need. She says thank you...
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Galbadrah Nadmid is 46 years old and lives with his wife and two children in Arhangai province in central Mongolia. His son currently attends secondary school and his daughter is in kindergarten. He has owned and operated a clothing shop with his wife since 1990. Their family lives together in their own khashaa, a Mongolian traditional house...
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Kakuba Isiah is the leader of his lending group in Ibanda. He is a married man with a retail shop as his business on Bufunda Street in Ibanda. He sells products like sugar, salt, soap, cooking oil, flour and many others and he is able to make profits between 250,000/= - 400,000/= and he attributes this to the quality of his products plus the availability of enough stock...
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Gordon is forty – eight years old. He is married and has given birth to six children, all in school. He works hard to be able to provide for the family. Gordon lives with his wife and children in a rented apartment in Konongo in the Ashanti region of Ghana. He is a trader. He runs a provision store...
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Keji Unice is currently in the business of selling green vegetables and is requesting a loan to stock beans and rice to sell. Keji is 35 years old and is Married with a husband that is a peasant. She has 4 children and her children go to school...
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Chantal Mambweni is the director of the group “Adona? Plus” made up of 28 members firmly united to receive loans from the MFI (micro-finance institution) HOPE RDC in order to develop their businesses...
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Khadeyge sy est une sociétaire de la caisse de baye laye depuis 2005.c'est une mère de famille qui a l'intention de relancer son commerce de tissus.elle sollicite un crédit de cent cinquante mille(150 000)frs pour renforcer son capital de roulement.c'est une mère de famille qui participe a l'entretien de sa famille...
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This gentleman learned the trade of carpentry but he was not able to open his own workshop. For this reason, he made the decision in 2007 to begin selling groceries. He is married and the father of 3 children...
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Adjélé is a lady who sells foodstuffs in the Vakpossito neighborhood in Lomé. She began this business in 2007. She is married and the mother of one child. She is very well-known in her neighborhood where lots of people come to do their shopping with her...
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Mbathio Dione est une vendeuse de chaussures de tissus et autre articles pour femmes. Elle fait ce métier depuis plus de cinq (5) années.les revenus tirés de son activité lui permettent d’aider son mari dans l’entretien du ménage. Avec le prêt qu’elle sollicité elle compte renforcer son activité par l’achat de plus de marchandise en vu de préparer les fêtes de korité...
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This is a lady who lives in the Atikoumé district of Lomé where she became specialized in braiding hair as her work, a business she has been operating since 1993.  She is married and the mother of two children.  This business allows her to bring her monetary contribution to home life and for educating their children...
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Cette dame a appris le métier de couture. Depuis un certain temps, elle ne trouve plus tellement de clientèle. Pour cette raison, elle s’est lancée en 2006 dans la vente de pagnes de qualité qui lui permet d’apporter financièrement son aide à son mari. Elle sollicite alors un crédit de WAGES pour acheter 15 pagnes Super Wax et 10 pagnes Hitarget. Elle est mère de 02 enfants...
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