At 34 Shahlohon has already four children. Her husband works for a collective farm and is involved in different businesses in addition. Shahlohon is a stay-at-home mother but she also tends to the cattle. Since she has been tending to cattle since childhood, this is easy for her...
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Khusrav is a young, 33-year old man. He is married with one child. Khusrav's wife is a stay-at-home mom. Khusrav is a construction worker by training and he is constantly working. Since his wife is a homemaker, she has quite a lot of free time. This would help support the family...
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Agripina is a member of the San Miguel de Ayacucho Communal Bank. Agripina is married, is 44 years old and has 3 children. Together with her husband Agripina is dedicated to growing vegetables that she then transports and sells in the supply market in the city of Ayacucho. Agripina needs a loan of 1500 soles that will be invested in the purchase of fertilizer and seed...
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Vilma is married common-law, she is 25 years old and has 2 children. Vilma runs a store run from her home where she sells grocery items, vegetables, and snacks. This is something she does during the days...
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Lilian Sanga is a married Tanzanian woman who operates a business selling fried and fresh fish at Yombo Vituka ward in Dar es Salaam. She purchases wholesale fish direct from local fishermen at Ferry Fish Market and sells at retail prices to her customers. She uses her income to meet her family's daily needs and to help her business...
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Genita Luís Domingos Sengo is a native of Maputo. She is 47 years old, married and the mother of 7 children. The oldest is 27 years old and the youngest is 8 and attending 8th grade. She only supports her family...
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Lucas Manuel Chipanga was born in Maputo. He is 44 years, married, and has 4 children aged 22, 20, 18, and 16. Besides supporting his children, he also supports his mother in-law, who lives with them...
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Mafalda Maria de Fátima Arminda Gloria Chemane was born in Maputo. She is 49 years old and the single mother of 5 children between the ages of 29 and 17. Besides her children, she also supports a granddaughter who lives with her...
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Quina Ernesto Chiconela is a native of Maputo and is 42 years old. She is a widow and the mother of 6 children. The oldest is 20 years old and the youngest is 6 years old. She only supports her children, all of whom live with her...
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Mrs. Maribel Ávila Arizmendi has a little house but the detail is that it only has one bedroom, she wants to build another room in her home but she does not have the money to purchase material...
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Aida Campos is the president of this communal bank. Aida was widowed 5 years ago and became the sole breadwinner for her household. She has made her living with a bakery for ten years. She is also a homeowner and would like to increase her capital so she can grow her bakery. Aida has already begun to diversify what she sells in the bakery...
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Paola Antonia Estrella Hernandez belongs to the "Loreto" Communal Bank. She lives in the city of Pucallpa, is 29 years old, has two small children, and her husband is a merchant...
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Janet Boateng trades in ladies’ wear – underwear, tops, jewels, etc. She buys from Kumasi and hawks the clothes in her community. Janet also treks to other towns to sell on their market days.
She is 27 years of age, married and the mother of two children – a son and a daughter...
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Mary Eshun is married and has 2 children. She has received schooling through senior high. Mary has sold provisions such as Milo (a brand of malted milk) and sugar in Elmina since 2005. Her husband is a teacher whose income is too small to support their family. Mary uses all her income to pay utility bills...
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Evelyn is 32 years. She is married with two kids. Currently both her children are in school. She lives with her family at Kasoa in the central region of Ghana. She has been selling aluminum buckets and plastic materials like plates, buckets, bowls, etc. for the past two years...
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Oksana is married with a son and lives in Zaporozhye. She sells clothing in the local market called Voznesenovskyi and a runs a small store in the main Lenin Avenue. She offers affordable merchandise at reasonable prices and invests much of her time in development of her business. She has been in business for 15 years. Oksana currently has about 10,000 Grivnyas in gross income...
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Ms. Ndiaye Pène is a married woman who lives in the Cité Senghor district of Thies. She has been doing commerce in aloé vera products for a few months. With this loan, she intends to buy a quantity of products to satisfy her customers...
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Samuel Degbe is 33 years old. He is single and dependent. Samuel is a dealer in mobile phones and accessories. He says the sale of mobile phones has become a very lucrative business in Ghana because almost every Ghanaian desires to possess a mobile phone for easy and fast communication...
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Rose Anane is forty-two years of age. She is married and has given birth to three children: one son and two daughters. She says they are in the senior high, junior high and primary schools. Rose lives with the children and her husband in a very busy commercial town called Goaso in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana...
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Greetings from Mutezinka Dative, 38 years old. She is single and she has two children, 12 and 7 years old. She lives in Nyarugenge district of Kigali the capital of Rwanda...
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Mariama Achiaa is 42 years old. She is married and the mother of three children. She has one daughter and two sons attending primary and senior high schools. She lives with her husband and children in a rented apartment in the very busy commercial town of Goaso, in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana...
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Zenabu Adjei trades in ladies’ underwear – blouses, chemisettes, bras, etc. She buys from Kumasi and hawks in her community. She also treks to other towns to sell on their market days. Zenabu is 29 years of age. She is single and lives independently. She says she is caring for her brother’s child...
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Evelyn Gyamia trades in palm oil. She buys her palm oil from wholesalers and retails for her customer’s benefit. Palm oil is produced from palm nut fruits. The palm oil is processed through various stages to obtain the palm oil which is used to prepare many local dishes like fried fish and pastries. She supplies food vendors to use to prepare their meals...
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Efua Otuwaa is a thirty-four-year old woman. She is married with a child. She sells jewelry and bottled ice kenkey. She sells iced kenkey to the community’s manual workers in the afternoon. Bottled ice kenkey is prepared from milled maize grains, boiled, mixed with sugar and milk and refrigerated. It is enjoyed with bread or meat pie...
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Afia Gyamfua is sixty years of age. She is married and has given birth to ten children – seven daughters and three sons. Some of the children are in the senior high school while others are in the junior high school. She lives with her husband and children in a rented apartment in a very busy commercial town called Goaso in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana...
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Asana Adamu is forty-four years of age. She is married and has given birth to five children, one daughter and four sons. Some of her children are in the senior high school while others are in the junior high and the primary schools. She lives with her husband and children in a family house in a very busy commercial town called Goaso in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana...
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Pacita Guigayoma is from the village of Clarin. She is 51 years old. Pacita is married and has 3 adult-aged children. To make a living, Pacita owns & operates a service-based business. This business provides construction services to local community members. Pacita has been engaged in her business for over 10 years and earns approximately 8,000 PHP a month from these activities...
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Mrs. Resureccion Parmisana is 59 years old and married with seven children. She is from Jimenez, Misamis Occidental, Philippines. She has been a member of PAGLAUM MPC since August 2008. She is seeking PHP10,000 for additional capital for her sari-sari (general variety) store to buy additional stock such as laundry items, seasonings, goodies, toiletries and other household items...
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Abudu Salaam Galikongoka is 34 years-old and a resident of Kyotera who serves on the town council. He is married man with four children. Three of his children are in primary school. He has been dealing with spare parts for over 5 years and he used to operate as mechanic for motorcycles and bicycles...
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Julieta Baje is from the village of Unidos. She is 46 years old, married, and has two adult children...
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Alberta Tandoh sells clothing at Abura. Alberta has received junior high school education. She has 5 dependents. Alberta has been selling clothing since 2004. She is responsible for paying housekeeping expenses. Her loan will be used to buy more clothing for resale...
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Victoria Arthur sells clothing at Abura. Victoria has received a junior high school education. She is married and has 4 dependents. Her husband is a commercial driver. Victoria has been selling clothing since 2001. She is responsible for paying the housekeeping expenses. Her loan will be used to buy more clothing for resale...
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Cynthia Gorman is married and has 2 children. Cynthia has received education through senior high school. Her husband is a driver and Cynthia is a trader who has been selling liquid soap for two years. She is responsible for paying the housekeeping expenses. Her loan will be used to buy more liquid soaps to re-sell...
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Gina Gapor is from the village of Unidos. She is 36 years-old. Gina is married and has 4 school-aged children. To make a living, Gina owns and operates a business selling bedding and bedding supplies to tourists and local community members. Gina has been engaged in her business for over 4 years and earns approximately 3,000 PHP a month...
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Salla Fall was born on February 16, 1970 in Thies. She lives in the Hersent neighborhood opposite the dispensary. For several years, she has been selling women's clothing. She buys materials that she gives to a tailor who makes up the clothing for her. She is requesting this new loan to increase her profit...
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Ayuru Mary sells beer at the bar and is requesting a loan to purchase more crates of beer to sell. She is 30 years old and married to a cattle keeper. Ayuru has two children who are attending school at Juba Girls' secondary school. With the extra profits from her loan, she hopes to be able to build a bar as a selling point...
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N? Ðào Th? is forty years old and lives in the town of Ninh Giang. She is married and has three small children. To make a living, N? owns and operates a business selling rice products in the local community. N? has been engaged in this business for over twenty years and earns approximately $170 a month from these activities...
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Hà Vu Th? is a 45 year-old female living in the town of Gia L?c. She is married and has three school-aged children. To making a living, Hà owns and operates a general store in the retail sector. While not the only means for generating revenue, the main source of income for the business comes from selling food and daily-use products...
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This lady sells groceries; she is very energetic and gains new customers daily. She wants to expand her business and add to sale of cereals so as to make more money. She is therefore asking WAGES for her first loan to buy 10 sacks of dried beans, 10 sacks of millet, 5 medium-sized baskets of green peppers, 1 big basket of tomatoes, and other grocery items...
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Felicia Kwartemaa, 41 years of age, is a married mother of four children – two sons and two daughters. She tells us that her children are in senior high, junior high and the primary schools. She lives with the children and her husband in a very busy commercial town called Goaso, in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana...
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Irma Barreto is 51 years old, married and has three children. Two are in college and one is a high school student...
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Maria Karina Alfonzo owns a mini-mart in the city Guyaybi. She sells beverages and foodstuffs as well as basic necessities and sweets, cookies and dairy products...
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The members of the “Yayanmarca de Cusipata” community bank are from the community of Cusipata, located about 2 hours and 30 minutes from the city of Cusco...
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Every Filipino, young or old, rich or poor, is a part and parcel of this fast changing world surrounded with political and economic crises nowadays. Every Filipino is aiming and focusing on something that would help her in everyday survival. Because of the above-mentioned reasons, Mrs. Charlotte Balolong, 36 years old with three dependents, is applying for a loan amounting to 7,000 Philippine Pesos...
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Rufina says, “Through hard work and patience in managing a general store business, one can achieve progress.” Rufina is 52 years old and married to Ricardo, who is a farmer in their village of Liwayway Diffun Quirino. She is managing a store in their village and she is requesting a loan of 10,000 PHP because she wants her business to grow...
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Karimova Kudbiniso is a married woman who, on a daily basis, seeks for the bettering of her family. She works with great effort for them and wants to continue to do so to build a prominent and promising future. Ever since she was a little girl, she has been dedicated to farming activities. She was raised this way and has been a stable source of income until this day...
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Celea Cabural is from the village of Kapita. She is 45 years old. Celea is married and has four adult children. To make a living, Celea owns & operates a business making & selling food. While not the only means for generating revenue, the main source of income for the business comes primarily from selling rice products in the local community...
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Lucy is the leader of four other members of a group. She is 35 and married with three children between 10 and 14 years of age. All her children go to school. She resides in, and rents, a two-room house where she is staying with five people. Lucy doesn’t take care of any additional family members There is electricity and piped water at her home...
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In the city of Yaguarón, some 15 km away from the Oficina de Paraguarí, a group called San José was formed, named by the group members who live in the neighborhood with the same name. After familiarizing themselves with the rules and regulations of the Comite de Mujeres Emprendedoras (Committee of Enterprising Women) of Fundacion Paraguaya, the accepted the terms and joined this group because of the numerous benefits the program offers...
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Wilma Candia is the president of the communal bank, is 37 years old, a single mother, has 2 children, and lives in a rented house.
She works in the beauty profession, a job that she carries out in her own home, however she mentioned that, “I would like to have my own beauty salon to be able to in this way improve my income and give my children a better life...
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