Gilberto is 43 years old, single, and lives with his children who are his greatest priority. With the loan he intends on buying wood, materials, and labor to repair the locale where he does his work repairing shoes, and in this way improve the working conditions and be able to offer his customers a better service and better facilities to make the shoe repairs. All this will result in him being able to offer a better quality of life to his family. With this loan he intends to make a high quality improvement to his work locale and his family's quality of life will improve. He will be able to take advantage of the low prices of some good quality materials. This is the first loan he has received from FUDECOSUR. He has not had loans previously from the state banks, but FUDECOSUR has provided him the loan with greater ease and much lower interest rates.
Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer Cindy Kendall. View original language description.