A loan helped to buy food for making meals, as well as tools, makeup, and other products for her work as a cosmetologist.


Yessenia Monserrate's story

Yessenia Monserrate and her family live in the city of Portoviejo, a beautiful place that mixes rural countryside and beaches that are very visited at all times of year. Yessenia is a hard-working woman who is looking for a way to earn a living and with that move forward together with her family. She graduated from cosmetology school recently and she is setting up a salon in her home and becoming a professional. However, while she waits to install the salon she continues with her business which involves making and selling meals and snacks for parties and social gatherings. In general each week she has contracts for her foods.

This loan will be used to buy food for making meals, as well as tools, makeup, and other products for her work as a cosmetologist.

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Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer Debra McMahon.


This loan is special because:

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


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