Tahira Parveen's Story

Tahira Parveen is a woman entrepreneur, struggling to bring prosperity to her family. She is 28 years old and lives in a small house with four family members in Hafizabad, Pakistan . She is a skilled woman and has adopted cloth stitching as a source of livelihood. She has around six years of experience in cloth designing and stitching.

She works at her home and provides tailoring services to the women of her community. Her stitching quality has earned her a good fame within a few years of services. She is very eager and wants to promote her business with the passage of time.

At the moment she is lacking finances to purchase raw material including cloth, colourful thread, needles, buttons, and lace for cloth stitching. She was seeking a loan from to finance the raw materials she needs for her business.

Now thanks to your generous donations Tahira has received the finances she needs to grow her business and support her family.

Tahira Parveen is very thankful to all who have helped to give her this opportunity.

Fauto Dionicio's Story

Fausto is a 51 year old contractor from Matagalpa, Nicaragua. He works every day to provide a better quality of life for his family.

Fausto was seeking a loan in order to build a toilet in his home. He plans to buy stone, ceramic tiles, sand, iron, and other materials. This will help his wife and children live in a healthier environment. In the future, he wants to rebuild his house so that his family can live in better conditions.

Today, many Nicaraguan homes do not have access to safe water or sanitation facilities. With few hygienic alternatives available to them, families often face water pollution resulting in respiratory, gastrointestinal or skin diseases as well as river pollution due to illegal sewage piping.

Thanks to your generous donations, you are playing an important role in helping Fausto and his family protect themselves from diseases. While at the same time, improving and strengthening their emotional and physical living conditions.

This micro loan is special because:
It helps communities protect themselves from diseases spread by poor sanitation.

Felipe Jr.'s Story

Felipe Jr. is a fisherman from Concepcion, Iloilo, Philippines. He has with two children, one thirteen years old and the other, two. For the past fifteen years Felipe has made fishing his livelihood, and uses what he earns to support his family.

In spite of the obstacles that Felipe Jr. has encountered in his life, he resolutely continues. He has applied for a  loan to buy a replacement for his boat's engine. Through this loan he will be able to keep his fishing boat in good condition and so improve his catch. This will ensure that his family continues to be supported.

Now thanks to your generous donations, Felipe has access to the finances he needs, to replace his boats engine.

Jayashri's Story

Jayashri is a resident of the district of Kutch in India. She is 33 years old, married and is living with her husband and their four children, two sons and two daughters. All her children are enrolled in school. The household sees an income of 15,000 INR a month, with which they are just able to manage their monthly expenses. They have 2,000 INR in savings, which is definitely not enough to improve the life of this six-member family.

Jayashri is already supporting the family through her tailoring business, but after analyzing their situation, she has taken the brave decision to expand her business. She was seeking a loan to procure materials to make salwar and patiala suits and pillow covers in addition to the products she already makes.

Jayashri hopes that this venture will help her increase her profits by 2,000 INR a month, which will enable her to give her children the life they deserve.
Now thanks to your generous donations she will have that chance.

(This Micro loan is special because It enables an entrepreneur from a vulnerable group to increase her income.)

Jane's Story

Jane is 36 years old, married, and a mother of 2 children, both of whom attend school. She lives in Nakuru East, Kenya.

Jane joined Hand in Hand Eastern Africa in January 2014 to receive training in enterprise development and financial management.

Jane operates a posho mill and sells maize flour. She wanted a loan to purchase more maize for milling, to increase her income and pay school fees for her children.

Now thanks to your generous donations Jane has received the finances she needs grow her income and provide education for her children.

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Ayoko's Story

Ayoko is a 34 year old married woman. She lives in Togo approximately 13 kilometres east of Lomé, in the Baguida neighbourhood and has four dependent children.

Ayoko is an itinerant vendor of wine. She gets her stock twice a month at the market. Ayoko was requesting a micro loan to buy additional cartons of wine to expand her stock.

Ayoko is hoping to make her business more profitable and have more earnings in order to enjoy financial empowerment and invest in her children's education.

Now thanks to your generous donations Ayoko has received the finances she needs to realise her hopes of empowerment and education for her children.

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Rajab's Story

Rajab is a married man with one child, and describes himself to be a very optimistic person. 

Rajab operates a retail business in Mombasa, Kenya, where he sells sugar, soap, bread, flour and other items. He has been involved in this business for 6 years. His business is located in a good area and his primary customers are locals. 

Rajab describes his biggest business challenge to be inadequate working capital. He wanted a loan to buy more stock of bread, flour ,soap and other items. His business goal is to have a wholesale business within 5 years and provide a better life for his family.

Now thanks to your generous donations Rajab has received the finances he need to grow his business for a better tomorrow.

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Itambé Group's Story

Members of this group: Alcides, Fabiana, Placido, Simone, and Vitor.

The Itambé group are friends who met in the same workplace. They all live and work in the Santo André region in São Paulo, Brazil. Fabiana sells snacks, Plácido sells pastries, snacks and juices, Simone sells snacks, and Vitor sells snacks and juices.

Alcides is the leader of the group. He is married and has three children. Alcides has a small store where he sells purses, and has worked for over 30 years with these products. He began this work selling door-to-door, and today he has a small business. He wanted a loan for the purchase of clothing, purses, wallets, and belts to expand his shops inventory.

The extra income will allow him to buy more merchandise. Alcides is a person dedicated to his family and in his spare time he volunteers for his local church. His dream is to open another store and to take a trip with his family.

Now thanks to your generous donations the Itambé group have received the finances to help Alcides dreams become reality.

The Itambé group would like to thank all those who helped them achieve this opportunity for Alcides.

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Blanca Isabel's Story

Blanca is a divorcee and currently lives with her two children.

Her sole source of income is growing corn. The harvest provides her enough food to feed her family, and an income to cover other family necessities. She started this business about 10 years ago with her own funds. She works every day from 6 in the morning until 12 in the afternoon.

She wanted to get the finances to have everything ready for the planting season. She plans to buy improved seed and agricultural inputs to weed and prepare the land for planting corn. Part of the money is to pay for labourers to help carry out the farm tasks.

She hopes to get an abundant harvest and grow as a micro-entrepreneur so she can give her children a better future. Thanks to your generous donations Blanca has received the fiances she need to succeed in accomplishing her dream. 

Higidio's Story

Higidio is a very hardworking person. He is 52 years old, single, and has three children.
He works selling fruit wholesale out of his small establishment in the town of Calca, Peru. He buys  his fruit from suppliers from Quillabamba and Urubamba Valley.
He was asking for a loan to buy oranges, bananas, papayas, cherry tomatoes, and mangoes to increase his shops inventory and expand his business. Higidio is hoping to grow as a entrepreneur and be able to give a better quality of life to his children. Thanks to your generous donations Higidio has received the finances he needs.

Akossiwa's Story

Akossiwa is a 28-year-old married woman from the suburbs of Lomé, the capital of Togo. She lives in the Baguida neighbourhood and supports two children. 

Akossiwa sells traditional pagne cloth and shoes in front of her house. She resupplies twice a month in the market. 

Akossiwa was asking for a micro loan to buy pagne cloth and shoes. She is planning to make her business profitable and will use the profits to meet the daily needs of her family and get out of her vulnerable situation. 

Now, thanks to your generous donations, she has received the finances she needs.