A loan helped to buy prepaid phone cards to resell.


Vololona's story

Vololona is a 28-year-old woman. She is in a live-in relationship, and the couple have two children. The family lives in a wooden house in a working-class neighborhood. Vololona has had a stable business for five years. She sells prepaid phone cards. She has a sales location along a busy street in their neighborhood. Her partner has a workshop where he paints motorcycles and bikes.

Vololona needs this loan to buy prepaid phone cards to resell. She awaits the support of the lenders.

She was able to pay her tuition for cosmetology school with the profits from the previous loan. She aims to increase her revenue. In the long term, she wants to have her own house.

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Translated from French by Kiva volunteer Holly Torpey.


This loan is special because:

It helps the poorest of the poor in Madagascar to improve their lives.



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