A loan helped to purchase rice, sugar, detergents, oil and other products to stock her store.


Flor Yelexi's story

Flor Yelexi is a 28-year-old single mother with an eight-year-old son. They live in Mejía, a place with hardworking people who work in agriculture and sell their products and who struggle to provide for their families.

Flor Yelexi is a woman who works very hard to find ways to earn money to provide for her son on her own since she is both mother and father to him.

Flor Yelexi works in a restaurant four days a week for which she receives a monthly salary. In her house, with the help of her mother, they also have a grocery store where they sell a wide variety of staple foods. They work every day, always providing the best service to their discerning customers.

The purpose of this loan is to purchase rice, sugar, detergents, oil and other products to stock her store.

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Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer Nicole Efros.


This loan is special because:

It is accompanied by useful, real-life business training.


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