A loan helped to buy rice, sugar, salt, detergents, canned goods, chicken, sodas, and many other products to stock her store.


Maria Loudes's story

Maria Loudes is 32 years old. She has three children, ages fifteen, twelve, and nine. They live in El Pollo in the canton of Portoviejo.

It is a place surrounded by a lot of vegetation. The majority of the people make a living from working in the fields and selling their products.

She is a hardworking woman looking for a way to earn an income to provide for little daughter on her own since she acts as both mother and father at the same time.

She is accomplishing this with the help she is getting from the loans, and she is very grateful for that.

She is a lawyer by profession and she offers her services when they are needed, but she has a grocery store at her house.

There, she sells rice, sugar, salt, detergents, canned goods, chicken, sodas, and many other products with which she meets her customers' needs.

She works every day, always providing her distinguished customers with the best service.

This loan is for buying rice, sugar, salt, detergents, canned goods, chicken, sodas, and many other products for stocking her store.

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Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer Chris Brown.


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


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