Hawa K (first on the left), the featured borrower of Hawa's Female Farmers, is a 45-year-old mother of six who lives in Roketteh village.
Sierra Leone's recent Ebola crisis devastated Hawa's once successful rice farm, and now she only works two acres and has to break stones by hand (with a hammer) to support her family.
Hawa's dream is to double the size of her farm and to farm more effectively, doing the work she loves.
Like Hawa, all members of this group are currently trapped in a cycle of subsistence and take extremely high-interest loans for poor quality inputs during planting time.
A no-interest Kiva loan will enable Hawa and this group of determined women to get back on their feet and back in business.
In this group: Hawa, Ramatu, Gbassay, Isatu, Mbalu, Gbonkepr, Kadiatu, Fatmata, Sallay, Unu