Loaning to Crafts People

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[Amy-in-PHX]

This loan was designated by the MFI as "clothing" sector and activity, but the featured borrower is a weaver of textiles.  I think most such loans would be called "arts" loans, instead.  So I post it here, in the "crafts people" thread so people can find her.

The “WARAWARITAS” communal bank will begin its third cycle in Pro Mujer as part of the Senkata Center. It has 8 members and is led by a governing board headed by Hilda. The communal bank members are in a variety of businesses. Among them we have: pants manufacturing, cosmetics sales, chicken sales, detergent sales, textile weaving, grocery store and meat sales.

Hilda indicates that this is the third cycle she’s worked with Pro Mujer. She joined thanks to an invitation from a promoter. She currently has a textile weaving micro business and a chicken shop that she's had since she was 16 years old; she’s been in business a total of 20 years.  The loan she’ll take out now is to increase her capital. She will buy textile weaving materials at wholesale on Rodríguez Street (a commercial area in the city of La Paz) that she’ll then sell on order. This way of working makes it possible for her to support her family in some way since she’s single and has five children.

When asked what she likes about Pro Mujer she answers: the training and the health services.

http://www.kiva.org/lend/305505

[Amy-in-PHX]

Mr. Khurelbaatar is a talented artist who is 46 years old. He lives with his wife and two children in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. Both of his children are in school and his older daughter graduates this year. In 1985, Khurelbaatar graduated from an art college and has worked as a freelance artist ever since. In 2008, he started making embroidered paintings on leather and today sells most of his paintings to tourists at various souvenir shops. He also owns a small plot of land and an old wooden house. He is planning to build a new home for his family and is applying for this loan to buy building materials.

http://www.kiva.org/lend/306188

[Amy-in-PHX]

Lucy is a member of the “Virgen de Concepción” communal bank located in Ayrumas Carumas in Acora District, Province and Department of Puno. She is 36 years old, married and has two school age children. She completed secondary school.

She has been working with the Manuela Ramos Movement for the last year. Her previous loan was for 300 new soles and she used it to raise domestic animals like cattle and sheep. She also relates that she sells fruit, groceries and crafts like knit caps, socks, mittens, caps, booties, etc. In reality, she’s quite the businesswoman. On the other hand, she also trains women who live near the area.

She will use the new, 1500 new sol, loan to buy 20 lambs to raise for two to three months. Her daughter helps her with the business. Her husband works in the city of Arequipa.  Lucy's dream is to improve the livestock and have her own crafts shop to produce the items of clothing in quantity and of better quality.
http://www.kiva.org/lend/312296

[FoxyOxy]

http://www.kiva.org/lend/319738

This loan really drew my eye but I'm trying to figure out exactly what those things are on the wall behind this borrower.  Paintings or some kind of "woven, cross-stitchy type things" (as you can probably tell I'm not an art expert!)

[FoxyOxy]

http://www.kiva.org/lend/320807

"Nabiha is a 42-year-old single woman, who started doing art work in 2007. It was a hobby that she finally improved and insisted on developing. At the beginning of her working life, Nabiha worked in selling clothes, but she had a dream to make come true, and she saved a small amount of money that helped in changing her career.

Nabiha is a talented artist. In addition to her drawings, Nabiha also works at preparing baby & wedding souvenirs, and that's why she's requesting a loan from Al Majmoua, for the first time, in order to buy necessary materials to be ready for requested baby souvenirs.

Nabiha likes her new career a lot and hopes to keep on developing it more and more. She hopes she stays capable of filling her customers needs and requests.

She hopes she can make a big exhibition for her drawings in the future and become well known in the region."

[waywardcats]

Maria Carmelina from Ecuador

María is a single mother of two children. They live in Otavalo, located in Imbabura, a province in the mountains of northern Ecuador. María is a very simple and hardworking woman, who likes working for the wellbeing of her family.

María has been working for 10 years in stall selling handicrafts. This is the seventh consequent year she has been working with Fodemi, and the loan she is currently requesting will be used to buy materials to create handicrafts such as beads, plastic pearls and paint, as well as to invest it in the purchase of handmade traditional clothing because she wants to engage in the clothes selling activity. This investment will help María earning a better income with which she will be able to provide for her family and improve their standard of living.

María wishes to run a place of her own where to sell her handicrafts, as she can count of well-established customers and she wants to tend to them in a better way.