A loan helped to buy ingredients and raw materials to create her breakfasts.


Carmen Silvia's story

Carmen is an enthusiastic and hard-working woman who is a loving wife and mother full of many virtues she provides to her family. Her children are going to school and her husband is retired. They live together in their own house.

To support herself, for a source of income, Carmen started working as a street vendor selling breakfasts, which she sells in area markets. This business is becoming a source of family income, since her children and husband help her with making the breakfasts and making deliveries. Carmen wants to get the financial support offered by the Visionfund Ecuador bank to buy raw materials for making her breakfasts. Her plan for the future is to have a commercial location in the city’s wholesale market. In this way, she hopes to continue supporting her children in their studies.

Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer Chris Marquardt, CT.


This loan is special because:

It aims to reach vulnerable refugee populations in an isolated region.



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