María Gloriosa is 37 years old, married and her husband is a teacher and a farmer. She has two children who are 13 and 6 years old who go to school. She is a hard working, enthusiastic and enterprising person. Among her dreams and hopes for the future are to improve the living conditions of her family and to contribute to the education of her children. The loan will serve to buy island guano (fertilizer made from seabird excrement) and other inputs to improve the production of her tara trees. With 10 years in this business, what she likes the most is selling through her cooperative and one of her challenges is harvesting more tara and earning more money.
Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer Kate Divjak. View original language description.