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Yabu (first on left), featured borrower of Yabu's Best Female Farmers, is a master farmer in Mahayrie Village and has a large family of 10. She is passionate about business and farming, but her rice farming business was hard hit during Sierra Leone's 2014-2017 Ebola crisis.
She has since recovered her business very slowly due to predatory lending and a lack of access to financing. She has organized a large group of other women who, like her, 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 this group of determined women to throw off the shackles of predatory lending, expand, and prosper.
Additionally, the global COVID-19 pandemic is causing food shortages in some areas of Sierra Leone as imported rice becomes more scarce. A Kiva loan will empower these women, and it will enable the group to increase their local rice production and and enhance food access in Sierra Leone at a time when this is badly needed.
In this group: Yabu, Nancy, Marie, Fatu, Amie, Marie, Sampa, Mariatu, Iye, Posseh
