A loan helped to buy fruit, ice, sugar, flavourings and other products to prepare soft drinks.


Emily Maria's story

Emily Maria is 19 years old, single, studying social work and lives in her parents' house in Santa Ana, a place with beautiful countryside and fresh water spas that are visited by tourists all year round.

She is a hard-working young woman who does her best to generate her own resources to pay for her studies and also to help her family with their expenses. Together with her mother, she runs a soft drink shop, where every day they prepare and sell delicious soft drinks of many flavours that are very popular with their customers who come to the shop daily to enjoy these delicacies that they prepare with love.

This loan is to buy fruit, ice, sugar, flavourings and other products to prepare the soft drinks.

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Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer Jan Ryan.


This loan is special because:

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


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