A loan helped to purchase rice, sugar, pasta, and canned goods.


Adela's story

Adela is 53 years old and a woman who likes to work and is happy and sociable. She is separated from the father of her children. She has seven children who are adults and independent, but she shares her business with some of them. She lives in her own house with three of her grandchildren who are 6, 10, and 16 years old, and whom she loves very much.

Adela works selling food, such as lunch. She prepares it at her house and sells it as a street vendor. Currently she is providing lunches to workers at a construction site and she has to make 50 lunches every day for them. She started her business more than 15 years ago with a loan and at the beginning she worked alone. Now three of her daughters help prepare and deliver the meals.

She considers her business to be profitable because she has fixed and constant income. On the other hand, she said that she started the business after her separation from the father of her children, when she needed an income to support her children.

Now, seeing the good results she is having, she wants to make repairs to her home to make a space for receptions and rent it out so that she can increase her income and change her business to a more restful one at her age.

This will be her first loan with MFP. She is happy to know that she can count on financial support to realize her plans. She said that she likes her community bank because she knows the majority of the members and considers them to be kind and supportive people. With the loan of 1000 nuevos soles, she will purchase ingredients to prepare her food, such as rice, sugar, and other items. She will be able to look for better prices by buying in volume.

Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer anonymized.


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