June KIVA Loan (LIBERIA)

Location: Monrovia South, Liberia
Repayment Term: 6 months
Activity: Construction
Repayment Schedule: Monthly
Loan Use: To buy bags of cement to make blocks

Ruth Davis, is the leader of a group of five borrowers called Gbawulu. She is 33 years old and married. She has two children aged 11 and 13 who attend school. She also cares for one sibling.

She was unable to attend school due to lack of financial support. For three years, she has been selling blocks in the Thinkers Village Community, outside Monrovia, Liberia.

She plans to use her 6,000 Liberian Dollar portion of this 30,000 Liberian Dollar group loan to buy more bags of cement. She describes herself as a serious-minded person. Her dream is to improve her business, build a house and continue to support her family so that they can have a better future.

Current KIVA Loans:

La Esperanza Group
Location: Ita, Paraguay
Repayment Term: 6 months
Activity: Food Production/Sales
Repayment Schedule: Monthly
Loan Use: Materials such as sugar cane, flour, sugar and coal

Iyunge Group
Location: Cibitoke, Burundi
Repayment Term: 8 months
Activity: Fruits & Vegetables
Repayment Schedule: Monthly
Loan Use: purchasing bigger quantities of beans but also new products to sell her customers
Repaid: $4.17

Obama Group
Location: Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Repayment Term: 7 months
Activity: Grocery Store
Repayment Schedule: Monthly
Loan Use: to start selling water, juice and sodas at wholesale prices
Repaid: $12.50

Siguikadi Group
Location: Kadiolo Sikasso, Mali
Repayment Term: 8 months
Activity: Retail
Repayment Schedule: Monthly
Loan Use: Purchase of selling items
Repaid: $12.50

Fight For Progress Group
Location: Makeni, Sierra Leone
Repayment Term: 12 months
Activity: Food Market
Repayment Schedule: Monthly
Loan Use: Buy palm-oil, rice, and oranges in wholesale quantities
Repaid: $7.50

Altantuya Lhasuren
Location: Tsetserleg, Arhangai, Mongolia
Repayment Term: 20 months
Activity: Butcher Shop
Repayment Schedule: Monthly
Loan Use: to purchase meat
Repaid: $5.59

LOANS PAID IN FULL:

Zenaida Daing- Farming, Sta. Josefa, Agusan Del Sur, Philippines
Elizabeth Aidoo- Food Market, Wiawso, Ghana
Mobateli Plus Group -Manufacturing, The Democratic Republic of the Congo
Paz y Amor Group -Fruits & Vegetables, Dominican Republic
Dustmatov Eralboy - Livestock, Tajikistan
Seccelambras Group -Food Production/Sales, Peru
Rashidat Mumuni -Fish Selling, Nigeria
Karla Vanessa Montiel Barahona -Housing, Nicaragua
Eal Nub -Fish Selling, Cambodia
Atim Irene's Group -Medical Clinic, Uganda

As of today i've "lent" $425.00 through KIVA to 17 different groups in 17 different places all around the world. Its amazing what $25.00 here and there can do when you continue to relend it out when you have been paid back. =)

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