Adding to basket
The ten women of the group Nissondiya 1 are all married in traditional families. The women average 39 years of age and four children each, all living in the village of Daoulabougou, in Région de Ségou (4th administrative region of the Republic of Mali). And they know one another through ties of community, marriage, kinship, and their rainy-season farm work in the village. They grow peanuts, millet, beans, fonio [an ancient type of millet], and rice.
With the goal of paying for tools, seeds, farm inputs, and labor to weed the fields, the group members decided to collaborate with the microfinance institution Soro Yiriwaso and are now on their fifth solidarity loan cycle.
Ms. Djeneba (the first women hunched over at the left in the photo) is a major manager of rainy-season farming in the village of Daoulabougou. She intends to use her loan to purchase seeds, farm inputs, and tools in the village of Daoulabougou and also to pay young people to weed her field.
The sales of her produce are made in cash transactions at the end of the rainy season to pay back her loan and finally to obtain the revenues to cover the sundry needs of her children; and part is for helping her husband for the well-being of their family.
In this group: Minata, Mariam Barry, Satou, Fatoumata, Awa, Korotimi, Djeneba, Gnediougou, Adiara, Fatoumata N
Translated from French by Kiva volunteer Daniel Kuey. View original language description.
