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Catalina, 35, is a single mother with one child. She is an unassuming person who is responsible and hardworking. She has a business making and selling tortillas and ground coffee. She grew up watching how this tortilla and coffee business helped her mother to provide for the family, and now she is working in the same way.
With love and devotion, Catalina is struggling to provide for her daughter and her mother. She gets up at dawn so that she can leave the tortillas that are ready to sell and go to work in a cigar factory, where she receives a salary for weekly production. This other income is very helpful, because Catalina's goal is to prepare her daughter to have a career so that she can get ahead on her own.
Catalina is requesting a loan from Fundenuse and Kiva to buy raw materials to make the products that she sells. Her near-term goal is to establish a kitchen where she could make her tortillas. Catalina is a member of the communal bank "Las Mercedes," along with Darling and Mario.
In this group: Darling, Catalina, Mario
Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer Lisa Grobar. View original language description.
