Kiva Microfinance Loan #11 - Sinore from Kenya

Sinore is from Kenya.  She is 52 years old, married and blessed with 6 children that she supports.  She is a maize farmer and has been in the farming activity for the past 4 years.  She will purchase farm inputs and prepare the lands with this loan.  She intends to use the anticipated profits to reinvest.  Her future dream is to be successful in her venture.

Kiva loan # 10 - Nadupoi

Nadupoi is 62 years old, married and blessed with four children that she supports.  For the last 11 years she has worked in animal trading.  She will use her loan to purchase animals to fatten and re-sell at a profit.  She is a hard-working woman from Kenya and plans to pay for her children's school fees with the increased profits.  She hopes to grow her business into a large-scale venture, as well as improve her family's living standards.

Kiva Loan #9 - Scolasticah

Scolasticah is a widowed woman from Kenya with 5 children.  She operates a poultry business and has been in the business for 5 years.  She plans to use her loan to buy chicks for her business.  She owns her own house but it has no electricity or piped water. 

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Keziah is from Kenya and she is 35 years old.  She is married to Peter and together they have four children.  She is a farmer and has been in the business for the past 15 years.  She will use the loan amount to purchase fertilizer and seedlings to use during this planting season.  She will use thee anticipated profits to pay school fees for her children.

She hopes to be among the leading farmers in her area  and also improve her living standards.

Leah is a married lady, 55 years old from Kenya, blessed with five children aged between 30 and 22 years.  She practices horticulture in her farm and has been in operation for a period of ten years.

This is her second loan cycle.  She repaid the previous loan successfully.  She wishes to use the new loan to purchase passion fruit seedlings and to prepare the land.

Leah will use her profits to help her children and expand her passion fruit farm.  She hopes to live a better life and prosper in her farm.

Mutaraza Kwebisaho Group from Uganda - Jovailo is a 49-year-old divorcee with four children. Since she divorced her husband who later died, Jovailo needs income to boost her business in order to help her look after her children so that they can have a better future. She conducts business on a small scale. Her main challenges are price fluctuations, unpredictable seasons and dishonest clients who buy goods on credit and never pay.

Evas, another group member, wants to buy more goats to trade as well as beans, maize, nuts and bananas. Her husband is unemployed, so she is the one looking after the family. Price fluctuations and foot-and-mouth disease are her major challenges.

The women are grateful to Ugafode and the group for having helped them to be independent in terms of finance. They are now doing well, and their children and families are well cared for thanks to sensitization received through the group.

Nafi's Group from Senegal - The Banc Villageois (Village Lending Group) that houses this group was founded on September 28, 2012. It is made up of 27 women from the same area who work mainly in sales, agriculture and livestock fattening.

The featured borrower Madame Nafi is a 44 year old married woman. She is the mother of eight children, the youngest of whom is eight. She also has a granddaughter who is three years old. She is the house mother at the outpost health clinic in the village and she has several years of experience. She practices sheep fattening concurrently. Standing up at the right of the photo, she is dressed in white and yellow flowers and is raising her left hand. 

With her loan, Nafi counts on buying two sheep for fattening and hopes to resell them four or five months later to prepare for her repayment.

She participates in the family spending (school fees, clothing, food, health) to support her husband.

We Made the Social Pages.......

.......of The Land Magazine a few weeks after our Ball in the Hall.  It was a full page colour spread with lots of photos from the night.  Everyone made a big effort to get dressed up and it paid off in the end!

Oh What A Night!!!!

The Year of the Farmer Ball in the Hall was a HUGE success!!!  There were 140 people there to enjoy the night - we ate, drank, laughed and danced our night away!!  We raised almost $3000 which we distributed amongst our Kiva committments, Birthing Kits Australia, the local school, and the Hall to upgrade the kitchen.  Everyone was too busy enjoying themselves to take any photos of the night!  I've only got these ones taken before the guests arrived.  In 2 years we'll be doing it all again!!

The Hall has NEVER looked this good!!

Some of the items we auctioned off and gave away as lucky door prizes.

Our unique bar tables with a bit of schushing!!

The entry to the Hall is always fun to decorate.

A board of photos taken around our district.

Our very talented Liz painted 4 chooks for the auction - they proved very popular!

Slow News Day??!!!

Rural news must be a bit slow around here lately because our group has featured in a news article again last week.  We had just had a meeting to see how our last minute preparations for the Ball were coming along.  I think the newspaper is going to be there on the night to take photo's, so we'll be featuring in the Daily Advertiser again soon!!!