Education Generation Lending Team

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[Amy-in-PHX]

I am starting a thread captioned "Education Generation Lending Team" because I am a member of that lending team on Kiva.  I want to have a place where people can post loans that are education-related.  They can be for university tuition, loans to parents and others to cover fees and expenses of children in elementary or secondary school, loans to entrepreneurs whose business is a school, loans to buy computers for students, etc, etc.  This could also be a place to post or discuss anything we want, concerning education for people in developing countries.

[Amy-in-PHX]

Today, several Education Generation lending team members are using some of their credits to lend to groups in Paraguay.  The link that pulls up all fundraising loans from Fundacion Paraguaya is this:  http://www.kiva.org/lend?partner_id=58

We've discussed that relatively larger loans would help us get the EdGen logo out, in front of more people, because larger loans require more people on them to reach full funding.  So, in addition to participating in loans that are explicitly education-related, we plan to make some loans that are on the larger side, to raise the visibility of EdGen on the Kiva site.

Fundacion Paraguaya is a good Field Partner to support, because of its strong connection to education in Paraguay, as discussed in this thread:  http://www.kivafriends.org/index.php/topic,5711.0.html

Here's an example of one Fundacion Paraguaya loan we supported with our team lending today:

Kuña Katupyry Group -- the representative borrower, Maria Vicia, will use her share of the loan to buy ingredients and tools to use in her business, making cheese.  http://www.kiva.org/lend/290514

[Amy-in-PHX]

Group loan from Field Partner Arariwa, Peru, in which the featured member is a salaried employee of city government in Urubamba; she is using her share of the loan to buy a computer for her children (ages 9 and 13), to help with their education. The other members of the group make a living in teaching, raising small animals, dentistry, selling vegetables, running a restaurant, running a general store and running a hostel.
http://www.kiva.org/lend/290214

[FoxyOxy]

http://www.kiva.org/lend/290832

Costa Rica loan. 26 months.
Adriana Cabalceta Rosales is a 21 year-old student who is finishing her degree in Human Resource Management. She is from Ostional, Guanacaste and needs a laptop to finish her studies. She needs a loan for 350,000 colones. Adriana hopes that after finishing her studies she will start working so that she can help her family financially.

[FoxyOxy]

http://www.kiva.org/img/w610h450/752890.jpg

Giovanna's village still doesn't have access to basic services of water and electricity. The main business activities in this village are farming, raising livestock and making handicrafts.... Giovanna sells milk which she obtains from her cows. She has more than six years experience in this business. Her main customers are retailers in her own village. While she is running her business, Giovanna is also studying at university. She uses the income from her business to cover her university expenses.

Giovanna is requesting a loan to buy a computer which she will use for her university work and in order to improve her educational performance.

[Amy-in-PHX]

http://www.kiva.org/img/w610h450/752890.jpg

Giovanna's village still doesn't have access to basic services of water and electricity. The main business activities in this village are farming, raising livestock and making handicrafts.... Giovanna sells milk which she obtains from her cows. She has more than six years experience in this business. Her main customers are retailers in her own village. While she is running her business, Giovanna is also studying at university. She uses the income from her business to cover her university expenses.

Giovanna is requesting a loan to buy a computer which she will use for her university work and in order to improve her educational performance.

I love computer loans, especially loans to buy computers for students!  Thanks for posting, Foxy!  (Friends, the url for Giovanna's loan page is this:  http://www.kiva.org/lend/291119.  Foxy's link goes to her photograph.)

[FoxyOxy]

I love computer loans, especially loans to buy computers for students!  Thanks for posting, Foxy!  (Friends, the url for Giovanna's loan page is this:  http://www.kiva.org/lend/291119.  Foxy's link goes to her photograph.)

Oops.  Sorry!  I was in such a rush to post that one as I suspected it would go quickly and wanted folk here to have first dibs.  Clearly over-tired now and not thinking properly.  Probably time for bed (and definitely time to stop translating!)

[Amy-in-PHX]

This is Rowena Bolante, 41, a resident of Dasmariñas, Cavite City, Philippines. She is married to Wilson Bolante, a landscaping artist, and is the mother of six children. Three of them are studying at high school, two are in elementary grades and the other one is in college.

At this time, she is working hard to be able to send her children all the way through college. This is a dream for most Filipino parents like Rowena, as she herself was an elementary graduate and believes that a college diploma is the best inheritance parents can leave to their children.

Rowena has been managing her own landscaping business for quite some time now. She is partnering with her husband in operating this business. Rowena offers landscaping services to individuals who desire to beautify their home gardens. She also sells ornamental plants and other landscaping materials for hobbyists and even schools in her local community. Rowena earns an estimated net income of 12,000 PHP a month.

To help her continue operation of her business, she is requesting a 50,000 PHP loan. This amount will be used as a source of added capital to her expanding business to buy supplies and other materials for their landscaping needs.

http://www.kiva.org/lend/292081

[Amy-in-PHX]

Akua Hannah is widow and has six children. As the sole breadwinner of her family, she makes a living selling banku, a Ghanaian staple made from fried fish and a mix of corn and cassava dough. She runs her business from Mfuom, which is near Abura (a town in the Central Region).

With her loan from Kiva, she plans to purchase more ingredients to increase the volume of food she sells. The increase in her earnings will allow her to set aside money to save up for her children’s education, which is her highest priority.
http://www.kiva.org/lend/291894

[Amy-in-PHX]

Santos, 37, is married and has two children. He lives in relatives’ house in José Leonardo Ortiz District, Chiclayo Province, in northern Peru. His community is urban and growing. He has basic utilities like potable water and electricity.

Santos has been preparing breakfasts for over five years. He does this activity in an itinerant manner along streets near the Moshoqueque Market, a large, very busy market. Santos will use the loan to buy another stand so that he can have two sales points, one run by him and the other by his wife. This will help increase sales and provide better customer service. He’d also like to use part of his loan to invest in his children’s education and pay school fees now that the school term has begun in Peru. He wants to improve the level of education his children receive so that they will be able to obtain better future opportunities.
http://www.kiva.org/lend/288807