Ruby Didi is a 52-year-old gentleman who is in a common-law marriage and has 3 children, all of legal age. His wife is a homemaker. They live in the parish of San Plácido, in the canton of Portoviejo, an agricultural place par excellence, with hardworking people dedicated to farming work and raising animals.
He is a very hardworking man who seeks to earn his living and thus provide for his family. And although rural living is very difficult because of a lack of resources from the state to help farmers, he seeks to give the best to his family.
He works in agriculture. They have several hectares under cultivation with cacao, crops that, with help from the loans, he hopes to improve and thus also improve the quality of his production. He uses natural irrigation systems, as well as organic fertilizers and insecticides, with which he tries to protect the environment.
This loan is to buy organic fertilizers and insecticides for improving his production.

Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer Christine Bruggemann. View original language description.