A loan helped to purchase fruits, milk, sugar, bread, meat, sausages, and other groceries to prepare the food.


Jorge Arquimedes's story

Jorge Arquimedes is 68 years old, married, and has three adult children. His spouse is a homemaker. They live in Portoviejo, a place of beautiful places which mix rural landscapes, beaches, and a varied cuisine attractive to tourists who visit this lovely place.

He is a hardworking man who seeks the way to earn his resources and, with them, to offer his family a decent life. He works making and selling fast food. He has a retail space in the city, there every afternoon and evening, they sell hamburgers, fruit smoothies, and soft drinks to the liking of his customers who come to the premises to eat the delicacies he prepares with love.

This loan is to purchase fruits, milk, sugar, bread, meat, sausages, and other groceries to prepare the food.

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Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer Wendy H.


This loan is special because:

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


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