A loan helped a member to be able to farm.


09_Gpf Bok Khalat Thilene Group's story

This group, created in February 2019, is composed of six members. They are experienced in the economic activities they conduct and are supportive of one another. They live in the same village and their main source of income is farming.

Fatou Bintou, with her hand raised in the photo, is the group's representative. She is thirty-three years old, married and the mother of three children of which one is a girl.

She works in market gardening and grows onions. She intend to use this loan to buy seeds, fertilizer and any products and to ensure that all necessary expenses are paid so that her work is successful. The harvest will be sold to salespeople in the area.

Fatou Bintou intends to expand her business and contribute to the family's financial needs.

In this group: Ngone, Fatou, Fatou Binetou, Sokhna, Marame , Aissa

Translated from French by Kiva volunteer Esther Schmit.


This loan is special because:

It empowers women working in agriculture in rural Senegal.



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