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Elizabeth lives and works in Colomi, she is economically independent, hard-working, responsible and enterprisng, capeable of managing her finances. She is in a common-law marriage, and has 1 young daughter who she has to look after via her work.
She has earned a living from agriculture since a young age, and has a lot of experience and antiquity in the trade: sewing potato and broad beans her main products, as they are in great demand at market. The land where she grows was inherited from her parents, it is about 1 hectare in the Chullpani-Paracaya community. She grows potatoes and broad beans with a crop rotation to allow the soil to recover. Elizabeth needs the loan to buy agricultural supplies: 2 lorries of organic fertiliser (hen droppings) and 15 loads of seed. She needs these supplies as it is near harvesting season. For this reason, she came to ask for a loan, to adapt to her needs and this will be of great help.
Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer anonymized. View original language description.
