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Fifty-six-year-old Marisol shares that, because she was a girl, her parents only sent her to school through the sixth grade. She married a man who works in a warehouse and the couple has two grown children who are nineteen and thirty years of age. Marisol is proud that one is a mechanic and the other is married.
To earn income, Marisol sells regional snack foods in a school, manages her convenience store and sells natural medicines from her home. She also takes custom orders. Her goal is to increase all three businesses. She requests her first Kiva loan to restock the shelves of her store, buy ingredients for her recipes and more plants.
Marisol is one of six Maya Tzutujil women who formed the Friendship Bridge Trust Bank “Luchadoras de la Colonia” in the department/state of Suchitepequez. They manage convenience stores, sell traditional Guatemalan appetizers, tamales and natural medicines. Since they have a limited amount of education, and health care is challenging to access, they feel fortunate to receive monthly educational training (health, family, women, business) and bi-monthly health care services (exams, consults, family planning). These “plus” services are part of the Friendship Bridge “Microcredit Plus” program of loans, education and health care. The program gives Marisol and her friends the tools that they need to empower themselves, educate their children and build better lives.
Kiva lenders are highly valued by Marisol and her friends! Thank you!
In this group: Natalia Maday , Marisol Merida, Karla Sureth , Silvia Elizabeth , Lucia Esperanza, Maria , Wendy Fabiola
