Funded

Total loan: $1,950

Mujeres Valientes Group

Villarrica, Paraguay / Food Production/Sales

A loan helped a member to buy greens, meat, condiments, vegetables, bread, and other products.

Mujeres Valientes Group's story

There are 12 members of this group. They help each other to get ahead and to be able to offer better living conditions to their loved ones. They are within the poverty elimination program.

One of them is Carolina Beatriz, who has 2 children for whom she fights to get ahead and give a better future, so they may have better living conditions and not forgo any necessities. She mentions that she works producing and selling foods which she makes herself and sells. She comments that she has a modest business where she works every day starting early in the morning, which is when she gets up to prepare the foods that she sells.

She requested this loan to buy raw ingredients to be able to make her foods, such as greens, meat, condiments, vegetables, bread, and other products to continue with her production.

Note: The child in the photo is the daughter of one of the group members signing this loan.

In this group: Carolina Beatriz, Ramona, Natalia Noemi, Honorina, Yanina Belen, Jazmin Carolina, Felicia, Antonia Beatriz, Nidia, Alicia Araceli, Teodora, Milagros Soledad

Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer Julie Arenson. View original language description.

12 son las integrantes de este comité, ellas se ayudan para poder salir adelante y poder ofrecer mejores condiciones de vida a sus seres queridos. Están además dentro del programa de eliminación de la pobreza. Una de ellas es la señora Carolina Beatriz, quien tiene 2 hijos, por quienes lucha para poder sacarlos adelante y poder darles un mejor futuro, que puedan tener mejores condiciones de vida y que no pasen por privaciones. Ella menciona que se dedica a la producción y venta de comestibles que ella misma hace y vende, y comenta que tiene un modesto negocio en el que todos los días trabaja desde temprano que es cuando se levanta a preparar los comestibles que luego vende. Pide este préstamo para la compra de materia prima para poder hacer sus comestibles, como ser verduras, carne, condimentos, hortalizas, panes, entre otros productos más para seguir con su producción. Obs: La niña en la foto es hija de una de las integrantes del grupo que firma este préstamo.

This loan is special because:

It is accompanied by an industry leading poverty-elimination program.

More about this loan

This loan is part of the innovative “Poverty Stoplight” program developed by Fundación Paraguaya for women living in poverty. A “stoplight” measurement tool is used to help borrowers self-identify the type of poverty that affects them most (lack of income, dearth of financial opportunities, poor living conditions etc.). Borrowers rate 50 areas of their life as green (not poor), yellow (poor) or red (extremely poor). Together with their loan officer, they come up with a plan to resolve yellow and red indicators. Through this program, Fundación Paraguaya has helped lift over 30,000 Paraguayan women and their families out of poverty.

To learn more about this unique approach to eliminating poverty, you can learn more on Fundación Paraguaya’s website.

About Fundación Paraguaya:

Fundación Paraguaya is a financially self-sustaining social enterprise that promotes entrepreneurship in urban and rural areas through microfinance, education programs, and more. Its focus on agriculture has helped many farmers boost their crop yields. And a number of other borrowers have taken out loans to start and grow social businesses that have helped deliver eyeglasses, medicines and other helpful services in their local communities.