Samali

Samali is 42 years old and lives in the town of Mityana in the Mityana region of Uganda. She is married and has five children. For the past five years, Samali has been working hard to manage her retail shop, which sells general merchandise items like sugar, salt, cooking oil, and soft drinks.

To help expand her business, Samali has requested a loan of 1,700,000 Ugandan shillings from BRAC Uganda. The loan will be used to purchase more sacks of sugar, salt, cooking oil, and soft drinks to sell, and will help Samali to generate greater profits and manage to provide enough food for her family.

Samali hopes that in the future she will be able to build a house of her own and expand the business more. She is a member of BRAC's microfinance program that primarily serves small group members like her who do not have collateral for commercial loans but do have businesses that have grown and qualify for microloans.