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Twenty-seven year old Milbia, mother of two children who are three and five years of age, is married to a bricklayer. She has a ninth grade education.
For two years, she has operated a food stand outside of her home where she sells delicious regional snack foods each morning. In the summertime, she also offers lunches. Milbia would use her fourth Kiva loan to buy ingredients for her recipes and firewood.
Milbia has joined seven other women who live in the department/state of Retalhuleu and formed the Friendship Bridge Trust Bank “Ocosito”.
These ladies have food, snack, and beverage businesses. They are owners of “mototaxis”, sell used American clothing, and cylinders of gas. Since they have little or no formal education, they benefit greatly from their monthly educational training, part of the “Microcredit Plus” program.
Topics are relevant to their lives and include information about business, nutrition, hygiene, health, family matters and women’s issues. Often, the ladies share what they learn with family members and friends.
Thank you, Kiva lenders, for helping Milbia and her friends help themselves. They are creating pathways toward a more prosperous future benefiting themselves, their families and their community in Retalhuleu.
In this group: Wendy Fabiola , Florinda , Celeste Azucena , Claudia Lucrecia , Gladis Noemi , Maria Del Rosario , Milbia Mariela, Evelyn Fernanda
