Microloan Stories

Caroline - Kenya

Tailoring A loan helped to buy material, threads, and buttons. Caroline's story Caroline has a tailoring business that she has been running for five years...

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Gladys - Kenya

General Store A loan helped to buy additional stock of soap, cooking fat and rice. Gladys's story Gladys is 29 years old, married and supports...

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Audu - Nigeria

Farming A loan helped to purchase additional farmland. Audu's story Audu is a hardworking farmer who has the ambition to expand his land under cultivation...

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Florence - Nigeria

Personal Expenses   A loan helped to save for the family's future. Florence's story Florence is a Babban Gona maize farmer living in rural northern...

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Abubakar - Nigeria

Farming A loan helped increase his farming profit margins in order to build a better house for the family. Abubakar's story Abubakar is a maize...

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Ramatu - Sierra Leone

Food A loan helped to purchase more rice, flour, sugar, oil, onions, Maggi stock cubes, salt, ground nuts, etc. to increase her business. Ramatu's story...

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Yakubu - Ghana

Personal Housing Expenses A loan helped to purchase two Sama Sama pour flush toilets. Yakubu's story Yakubu is a 26-year-old teacher and belongs to a...

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Gyanu - Nepal

Crafts A loan helped to buy raw materials for statue making. Gyanu's story Gyanu is 36 years old. In 2010, she established her statue making...

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Ignace Christohe - Madagascar

Retail A loan helped to purchase notebooks, pens, and chalkboards. Ignace Christohe's story 43-year-old Ignace is a married father of five children. Three of them...

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