Maurice M. Mansaray's GroupSalone Microfinance Trust (SMT), a partner of Kiva based in Makeni, is very pleased to present to you this group of
primary school teachers from Kabala, a town in northern Sierra Leone. They have come to SMT/Kiva lenders to request a loan of 9,400,000 Sierra Leonean Leones (SLL) to meet their immediate financial challenges. At the end of each month, they will repay the loan using their monthly salaries.
Maurice is the leader of this group of teachers. Maurice was born in Yagala, a village near Kabala. He is sixty years old and married to a businesswoman. Maurice has five children who are attending primary and secondary schools. He has been a teacher for forty years.
He has requested this loan in order to buy house building materials for the construction of a family dwelling.