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Total loan: $275

Liezel

Victorias, Negros Occidental, Philippines / General Store

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A loan helped to buy additional items for her sari-sari store.

Liezel's story

Liezel is 40 years old. She is married and has 5 children.

Liezel works hard to provide for her family. She owns a sari-sari store in the Philippines and has been running it for 10 years. She also earns additional income from food vending.

Liezel has requested a PHP 11,000 loan through NWTF to buy additional items such as canned goods and noodles to sell in her sari-sari store. She has borrowed and repaid 4 previous loans from NWTF.

Liezel aspires to improve her sari-sari store business so that she can send her all her children to college.

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About Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation (NWTF):

Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation (NWTF) is a non-governmental organization established with the aim to help women achieve self-sufficiency, particularly in the province of Negros Occidental's low-income communities. The organization offers its clients a wide variety of products, including loans for micro-entrepreneurs, hospital income benefits, life insurance, accidental death benefits and more. Kiva lenders' funds will be used to expand the reach of these products to low-income urban and rural communities.