A loan helped to buy merchandise such as backpacks, school supplies and various bazaar products for the school season.


Lady Katherine's story

Lady, 28, lives with her family in Atacames, a tourist town like Manta and Jama.

Lady is very hardworking, always thinking about how to improve her financial situation. Two years ago she started buying and selling variety and paper products. She started this work because she helps with the household expenses and she wants to be more financially stable.

Lady's requesting a loan to increase her working capital to buy merchandise like backpacks, school supplies, and a variety of products for the school season, to increase her sales and earn a good profit margin to provide her family with better economic stability.

Lady is very excited and she doesn't want to make a bad impression on the institution that will give her financial support.

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Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer Catharine Wall.


This loan is special because:

It focuses on the poorest one-fifth of the population with no access to financial services.



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