A loan helped a member to buy 12 pagnes, 12 shoes, and 3 seals of traditional incense.


Sompassete Group's story

Maimouna, the group representative, is married with 2 children. The oldest is 25, while the youngest is 10 and still in school.

Maimouna has sold various items (pagnes, shoes, traditional incense and mineral water) for 7 years. She stocks up at the markets in the cities of Ouagadougou and Bobo Dioulasso and foreign countries.

She will buy 12 pagnes, 12 shoes, and 3 seals of traditional incense.

Maimouna wishes to reinvest her profits in her business. She plans to become a wholesaler and buy a plot of land to build a house on.

In this group: Maimouna, Adama, Safieta

Translated from French by Kiva volunteer Thomas Callow.


This loan is special because:

It empowers borrowers to grow their businesses.



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