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Erika lives in a very remote community named Pugara, in the parish of Cahuasqui, which is located in the north of Ecuador, a place whose main economic activity is agriculture. She is 34 years of age and lives with her 2 children.
Erika has always worked in agriculture, growing peas and granadilla [a variety of passion fruit], and at the same time she works as a day laborer on the local fields. She also raises animals like chickens and pigs, to sell them locally.
Erika received a plot of land as an inheritance from her parents, which must be fenced so that she can start sowing her pea crop. Therefore, she requests a loan to fence it and to buy fence poles and barbed wire and pay manual labor, as well as for sowing the peas and maintaining all of her crops.
Erika is very grateful for the trust and help that you provide her, since this business is her source of income for maintaining her family.
Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer Christine Bruggemann. View original language description.
