Farming
A loan helped buy seedlings, fertilizer, pesticides and labour.
Mary Yenla's story
She is married with seven children who she lives with in a three-bedroom apartment in Ndop, North West Region of Cameroon.
She has faced some challenges in life such as the death of her sister and sickness.
With the new loan requested, she plans to increase her farmlands both in size and content by buying seedlings and fertilizer and paying for the tilling and planting of the farmland as well as harvesting and transporting the crop to the market.
She has a positive attitude that the business will succeed because there is high demand for her product. Her activity will help the community in that it will serve as foodstuff to the community and it will provide job opportunities.
With the profit from the loan, he will pay her children’s school fees, invest the money in different business activities and build a new house.
She prefers getting a loan from GHAPE because it is trustworthy, the interest rate is low and because she gets training from GHAPE before taking a loan.
This loan is special because:
It is coupled with multi-faceted trainings to support the poorest in Cameroon.