Microloan Stories

Josephine - Philippines

Livestock A loan helped to buy feeds and other supplies to raise her livestock. Josephine's story Josephine works hard to support her family. She is...

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Mardy - Philippines

Pigs A loan helped to buy feeds, piglets and other supplies to raise her pigs. Mardy's story Mardy is 53 years old, married and has...

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Radha - Nepal

Farm Supplies A loan helped to buy fertilizers. Radha's story Radha is 62 years old. In 2002, she established her mushroom farming and sales business....

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Mehriniso - Tajikistan

Cattle A loan helped to buy some cattle to start her own business and increase her family's income. Mehriniso's story Мehriniso is 51 years old....

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Saraswoti - Nepal

Restaurant A loan helped to buy restaurant goods. Saraswoti's story Saraswoti is 34 years old. In 2008, she established her restaurant business. She has already...

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Ndawa - Kenya

Motorcycle Transport A loan helped to pay for spare parts and repair of her motorcycle. Ndawa's story Ndawa is a married woman with three children,...

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Diviner - Kenya

Beauty Salon A loan helped to purchase wigs, braids and a new blow drier to improve her services. Diviner's story Diviner is 31 years old....

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Hannah - Kenya

Farming A loan helped to buy seeds to increase her horticultural farming. Hannah's story When Hannah began farming, she was experiencing challenges in handling pests...

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Pricilla Muthoni - Kenya

Farming A loan helped to buy fertilizer and banana tubers to increase her farming activity, as well as foodstuffs for her shop. Pricilla Muthoni's story...

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Serah - Kenya

Farming A loan helped to buy fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides to use on her farm. Serah's story Lenders on the Kiva portal, introducing to you...

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Sawi - Indonesia

Personal Housing Expenses A loan helped to build a clean water source facility at her home to improve access to water sources for her family....

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Asta Maya - Nepal

Grocery Store A loan helped to buy grocery goods for her business. Asta Maya's story Asta Maya is 60 years old. She is married and...

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Chhoeum's Group - Cambodia

Personal Housing Expenses A loan helped a member to buy a wardrobe. Chhoeum's Group's story A resident of Banteay Meanchey province, Chhoeum is 39 years...

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Radha - Nepal

Shoe Sales A loan helped to buy raw materials to make shoes. Radha's story Radha is 55 years old. She is married and has two...

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Kusum - Nepal

Shoe Sales A loan helped to buy raw materials to make shoes. Kusum's story Kusum is 28 years old. She is married and has one...

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Rachel - Philippines

Fishing A loan helped to buy seaweed. Rachel's story Rachel lives a simple life with her family in a town of Concepcion, Iloilo. She is...

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Kulsam - India

Clothing Sales A loan helped to expand her cloth-selling business by purchasing kurtis, salwars, suits, dress materials, etc. Kulsam's story Kulsam, is a 39-year-old married...

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Maendeleo Group - Morogoro - Tanzania

Used Clothing   A loan helped a member to add more stock of secondhand clothes such as dresses, skirts and tops. Maendeleo Group - Morogoro's...

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Evangeline - Philippines

General Store A loan helped to buy additional stocks of groceries to sell. Evangeline's story Evangeline is 39 years old and married with five children.Evangeline...

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Salamatu - Sierra Leone

Food Market A loan helped to purchase more palm oil to increase her business. Salamatu's story Meet 40-year-old Salamatu from Waterloo 2, Sierra Leone. She...

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Albert - Cameroon

Retail A loan helped to buy potatoes to sell. Albert's story Albert is a 22-year-old married woman and the mother of three children ages two...

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Mary Yenla - Cameroon

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...

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Anasthasia - Cameroon

Farming A loan helped to pay for clearing, hoeing, fertilizers, seedlings, farming tools, harvesting, and transportation. Anasthasia's story Anasthasia is married and has six children....

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Hidup Bersama Group - Indonesia

Bakery   A loan helped a member to purchase wheat, sugar, and cooking oil for bread, and to purchase yarn. Hidup Bersama Group's story Bendita...

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Deni - Indonesia

Phone Use Sales A loan helped to increase his daily revenue by selling mobile airtime credits, and providing bill payment services for his communities. Deni's...

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Ade - Indonesia

Phone Use Sales A loan helped to give his community better access to communication and financial services by selling mobile airtime credits and providing bill...

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Nuryanto - Indonesia

Phone Use Sales A loan helped to provide more prepaid mobile airtime purchases for his community. Nuryanto's story Nuryanto lives in North Tangerang, a suburban...

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Pelita 2 Group - Indonesia

Farming A loan helped a member to purchase more seeds and fertilizer. Pelita 2 Group's story Dorkas and Sarci are the additional members in the...

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Sukamaju Group - Indonesia

General Store A loan helped a member to purchase more stock of products to sell, including snacks, sugar, coffee, instant noodles, shampoo, and soap. Sukamaju...

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Gung - Indonesia

Crafts A loan helped to invest in the purchase of wood and paints for the production of his new designs. Gung's story Balinese artisan Gung...

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