Three New Kiva Loans round out May.
We’re rounding out May with three new Kiva loans - ya’ll apparently like the new PayPal subscription options!
Our first Kiva loan is to Asha Rawat, who lives in the town of Bagdol, in the Lalitpur region of Nepal.
Most people in this region run small businesses such as grocery stores, small hotels and stationery stores.
Mrs. Maharjan is a widow who lives with her two sons. Three years ago, her husband, Mr. Tilak Rawot died, giving her sole responsibility for her family. Both of her sons are in school, one in the 10th grade and the other in the 6th.
Mrs. Rawot opened a small hotel three years ago. She also runs a shop where she sells different types of Nepali food, along with tea and coffee. She has applied for a $225 loan to buy food supplies for this business.
Our second loan was made to Margaret Aidoo of Ghana.
Margaret Aidoo is a fifty two year old widow and mother of five children. She believes in hard work and dedication and that is the secret of her success. She owns and operates a local restaurant and sells local foods like fufu, banku, ampesi, and rice balls.
Fufu is prepared from pounded cassava and plantain and eaten with soup. Banku is prepared from milled maize grains and eaten with hot pepper or soup. Ampesi is a boiled plantain or yam and is eaten with any stew.
She wants to use this loan to buy more raw materials, like bags of maize, baskets of cassava, plantain, meat, fish, vegetables and firewood. She belongs to the community group called Nyame Boafo Trust Group. In this group, members guarantee for one another as social collateral and act as peer pressure to repay the loan.
And our third loan is to Teodora Bautista Cristóbal of Mexico.
I have already started building my home but I lack the materials needed to finish it. I need finishing liquids and bricks for some rooms. I’m requesting a loan of $1,2000 so I can complete construction.
Translated from Spanish by Marty Greenstein, Kiva Volunteer
Tengo ya tiempo que empecé a construir mi casa pero me esta faltando material para terminarla, me esta haciendo falto los acabados y la losa de algunos cuartos. Es por eso que solicito un préstamo de $1,200.00 dlls. Para terminar la construcción de la vivienda.
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