A loan helped to purchase cocadas, troliches, alfajores and other artisanal sweets.


Joel Clotario's story

Joel Clotario is 60 years old, in a common-law marriage, and has two children, both adults. His wife is a homemaker. They live in the city of Portoviejo, a place of lovely places which mix rural landscapes and beaches which are visited by many all year round.

He is a very hardworking man who seeks the way to earn his resources and, with them, to get his household ahead. He works buying and selling artisanal sweets such as cocadas, troliches, alfajores, and many other products which, for how delicious they are, sell very well. He purchases in a nearby canton and then brings them to his house where he distributes them to other merchants or sells to the public. He works every day, always offering the best services and the most tasty sweets.

This loan is to purchase cocadas, troliches, alfajores and other artisanal sweets.

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Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer Wendy H.


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It is accompanied by useful, real-life business training.


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