Yolanda is 41 years and is a very enterprising woman. She lives with her husband and their 3 children in the house that her parents left them. On weekdays she works as a nurse at a polyclinic that is located an hour from her home, and on weekends she does manual labor such as loading and transporting construction materials to the site where she is building a house. She really enjoys the latter work, since she helped her parents with that sort of work from the time she was a child. Right now she is finishing up the work, and feeling both very tired and satisfied, and that is why the masons have respect for her work. Her greatest desire is to live off the income from the rooms she rents out. She hopes to continue working and investing in the future so that when her children are in school they can have everything they need. This is Yolanda’s fifteenth loan with Kiva partner MFP, and she promises to be very responsible with her payments—as she already has been, since she doesn’t like to have liabilities. She will use the loan she is requesting to purchase crushed stone and other materials for installing girders so that she can finish building her home.
Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer anonymized. View original language description.