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Forty-six year old Olga, a mother of three grown children over the age of nineteen, shares that she had a fourth grade education and had to leave school to help her mother who sold fruits and vegetables. She also operated a convenience store that Olga later inherited. Olga is married to a truck driver.
Ten years ago, she changed businesses and started raising chickens that she sells both live and butchered. Five days a week, she also sells delicious “tamales” and “chuchitos” (“Chuchitos” are small Guatemalan tamales filled with chicken or pork covered with tomato sauce and wrapped in corn husks.). Her goal is to leave her children her house and a stable financial future. She requests her seventh Kiva loan to buy more chickens and chicken feed.
Olga was elected President of the Friendship Bridge Trust Bank “Mujeres Vencedoras” by six women who live in the department/state of Suchitepequez. They sell coconut water, fried bananas, or raise and sell chickens. A monthly educational training, part of the “Microcredit Plus” program of loans, monthly educational training (health, business, family, women) and bi-monthly health care services (consults, exams, family planning) is essential to their growth and success. Recent topics for the training have been about the dangers of over-indebtedness and loaning one’s name to someone else’s business, wise investment practices, and good health practices. Olga shares that she has benefited greatly from the program.
Thank you, Kiva lenders!!
In this group: Zonia Elizabeth, Gloria, Olga Marina, Julieta Amiscela , Teresa Eufemia , Blanca Marlene , Teresa
