Women In Hats!

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[alan]

Maria Tanalas


Maria Tanalas has no family but she has a very promising business, which is rice. She is 49 years old and is growing rice since 1986. For 22 years, she managed to keep all her earnings to save money for future use.
“ I own 2 hectares of farm. Every year I can plant three times and harvest 100 sacks per hectare. I also raise pigs”, she said.

But now, she needs a loan to buy fertilizers and piglets. She wanted her business to prosper to be able to hire more workers and employ more un-employed people in their location.

7 months EOT, 3*, No Currency Risk

[tdcheetah]

Yup. I noticed that one, too, Lee. Have my eye on it if it's still not funded by the 15th!

Well, maybe keep your eye on this one too, as it's one of those large group loans from Pro Mujer -- BUT you can get 5 hats for the price of one.  Wait, there's more -- how about the centrally featured hat which looks like an albino sunflower!

Primero de Mayo Group, 13 people asking for $2,675, 7 mo. with big payment up front, 5* lender with currency rosk covered:

And when are you going to join the Women In Hats team, where everyone's a team captain? 

But I keep telling you people I don't waaaaanna be a team captain!   


Lee
(Heck, one reason I haven't started a Men with Cows group, or at least a Person with Livestock one --  I'd have to be a team captain by default...)

[RichardF]

But I keep telling you people I don't waaaaanna be a team captain!   

 
Then you can be the team captain in charge of not doing team captain stuff!!! 

[alan]

Well, maybe keep your eye on this one too, as it's one of those large group loans from Pro Mujer -- BUT you can get 5 hats for the price of one.  Wait, there's more -- how about the centrally featured hat which looks like an albino sunflower!

Come on, credits! (Is it too early in the month to say that?)

[jennifer]

Santos Luisa Avila Alvarado, Peru

Matching hat on baby 

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Sra. Santos Luisa Avila Alvarado is 42 years old and lives in the District of Usquil, Otuzco Province, Department of La Libertad, Perú. She is a member of the Communal Bank “Cachanchugo”.

This entrepreneur has a 6th grade education. She has 5 adult children who are financially independent.

Santos sells food from a grocery store she operates out of her home. She used her first loan of 200 soles to buy merchandise to stock her store.

She is now requesting a loan of 1000 soles to buy rice, sugar, noodles, milk, oil, sodas, juices, beer and other products to sell from her grocery store. Santos dreams of offering more products in her store and expanding her house so that she can open a bar to sell more beer.

5* Manuela Ramos, currency risk possible, 6 month loan

[jennifer]

Inobat Usmonova, Tajikistan

Inobat Usmonova lives in Tursun-zoda region. She is 48, married, and has one child. Inobat has been in sales for more than 20 years. She sells national hats called "tubeteyka." She has a supplier that provides her with low-priced hats, which she later resells at higher prices on a market. Her husband works at private construction. She is asking for a loan to increase her inventory.

4* MLO Humo, currency risk n/a

[jennifer]

Hayde Veronica Arpasi Castro

Ms. Hayde Arpasi is a member of the “Señor de la Caña” Communal Bank, located in the Plateria district of the Puno province, department of Puno. She is a 29-year-old single mother with 3 children who lives in Plateria and has a high school diploma. Ms. Arpasi has been working with the Manuela Ramos movement for 2 years. She used her initial loan in the amount of 300.00 PEN to purchase wool to make handicrafts. At this time, she is requesting a 600.00 PEN loan to purchase wool in assorted colors to make handicrafts, which she will then sell at different markets. Her biggest dream is to have her own small handicraft company. She likes the savings offered by her bank, and the ease of obtaining loans.

[jennifer]

Jeny


Jeny is a 24 year old single mother who lives in her parents’ house. Her family is a farming family. She knows how to use all of the farming tools. Her preferred crop is the potato. She sells it for consumption and as seed. When it is for consumption she selects the biggest ones to sell in the wholesale market in the city. When the potatoes are medium sized or for seeds she waits for the buyers from the coast who go to her house to buy her product.

That’s why Jeny believes that with this crop there are no losses. She invests confidently, striving to increase her production to be able to buy her own land and to no longer be dependent upon her parents.

In previous cycles her father’s name was on the loans, and she made all of the payments. But this time she decided to join her communal bank as an active member. This way she will be able to save with the group, which is very important to her. The money she is asking for is to buy chemical and organic fertilizers for her potato crops.

[alan]

Quingeo (cuenca) Group


What a colourful picture and a lovely bunch of Women in Hats!

8 Months, 4*, No Currency Risk

[linaka]

Here are a couple more that caught my eye

Niriam Gonzales Quispe http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=137521 Señora Niriam Gonzales Quispe is 27 years old and she has a daughter who is a year old. Her husband does not live with them for economic reasons; he had to go to work in Argentina because he could not find work in Bolivia. Señora Niriam lives in her mother's house which is located in the Maica Centra area of Cochabamba. She has dairy cows on the property which produce milk. All of her milk production is delivered daily to a woman who makes yogurt and other dairy products. Since her husband is away her mother helps her care for the cows which, with a 1-year old baby, is difficult for her to manage on her own. The loan will be used for the purchase of dairy cows in order to increase her production of milk, and this way she can improve her income and as a consequence her standard of living. Señora Niriam hopes to be able to increase her earnings such that she is able to earn enough to hire someone who can help her with the care of the cows, and this way she would not have to depend on her mother, who is an older person. Also, this way she could have more time to give attention and care to her baby.
	Juana Isidora Montalico Musaja http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=136528 Isidoro is a member of the Generación 2000 Comunal Bank, which is located in the Santa Rosa Mazocruz district, El Collao province, Puno department. She is 60, married, and has seven children. She has a third grade education. She lives on Av. Ejercito S/N. She has worked with the Manuela Ramos Movement since its foundation, which has been several years,. With her initial loan for 300 PEN she bought lamb and alpaca meat. She is now asking for a loan for 2,500 PEN to buy cattle in Acora, which is where the community’s farms are. Her dream is to have a butcher’s shop where she could sell directly to Tacna. She likes the way they work and the simplicity of the loans.