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Isatu (first from left), featured borrower of Isatu's Women Farmers, is a master farmer in Matrando-Loko village and has a large family of eight. She is passionate about business and farming, and likes to help younger women get their start.
Isatu is a seasoned farmer whose 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, and 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 to increase their local rice production and enhance food access in Sierra Leone at a time when this is badly needed.
In this group: Isatu, Sama, Kumbu, Aminata, Yeabu, Salamatu, Hawa, Yeabu, Ramata, Yeabu, Yanka, Fatu, Aminata, Ramatu
