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Maggie is running a tuck shop business which she started three years ago from her personal savings. Maggie, 59 years old, resides in Lyndhurst, Goromonzi. She is a mother of five children, all of whom are independent. Her husband is a soldier.
She restocks twice a month from Harare. Different people can be seen getting into her tuck shop, buying day-to-day goods for use and consumption, and she has become so popular in her neighborhood to the extent of being called the Lyndhurst Mahomed Mussa (named after a famous wholesale shop in Harare) by some of her loyal customers.
Her good communications and customer care skills have created a good market share for her in a fiercely populated, developing area. It is in that competitive market that she needed additional support, as working capital has been much of a major constraint.
To curb her current shortages in working capital, she approached Thrive applying for a loan. On her previous loan Maggie managed to improve her business and also used some of her profits to restock a lot of groceries. Maggie used her share of the loan to restock drinks and other tuck shop groceries in order for her to meet the demand for the goods.
In this group: Maggie, Annah, Charity, Josephine
