Dorcas Bentil


Status: Paid Back

$725.00   Loan Request
$725.00   Paid Back

About the Entrepreneur

Name: Dorcas Bentil
Location: Cape Coast, Ghana
Activity: Bakery

About the Loan

Loan Amount: $725.00
Loan Use: To buy baking materials like bags of flour, sugar, margarine, yeast and firewood etc.
Repayment Term: 8 months - View details below
Lenders Repaid: Monthly
Currency Exchange Loss: Covered
Date Listed: Apr 10, 2009
Date Disbursed: Mar 26, 2009
Date Funded:Apr 10, 2009
Loan Ended:Oct 15, 2009

About the Country

Country:Ghana
Avg Annual Income:$2,643.00
Currency:Ghana Cedis (GHS)
Exchange Rate:1.4170 GHS = 1 USD



Dorcas Bentil is 43 years old. She is a married woman with four children. Through the support of her husband she is taking care of two children who are pursuing degree programs at the university. The other two are also in school. She lives with her family at Twifo in the central region of Ghana.


For the past seven years until now, Dorcas has been baking bread and other pastries like cake, doughnuts etc. In taking care of her household, and in spite of the challenges she faces, she bakes sugar bread, wheat bread, etc. and retails them to her customers. She says she makes sure her food quality meets her customer’s expectations. Her customers book their order in advance and before they come their order is ready. She also retails to individuals for their morning breakfast through hawking (that is house-to-house selling).


She says the price of commodities is increasing which is making it difficult to buy more raw materials from the market and the daily demand for bread is high. Dorcas needs the loan to buy more bags of flour, sugar, margarine, milk and firewood etc. She said your assistance would be much welcome. Dorcas belongs to a group called Amen. With the loan she believes she can save more to support her husband in taking care of the children's educational needs.


Subscribe

Lenders to this entrepreneur

Anonymous
Carmel, IN
United States

Kat & Jacob
Carnegie, Victoria
Australia

Stephanie
Little Egg Harbor, NJ
United States

Monika
Wiesloch,
Germany

Etienne
Vernon, CT
United States

Julie
Columbia, MD
United States

C.C.
Milford, MA
United States

Millie

United Kingdom

Markus
Imatra,
Finland

Neil
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada

Debbie
Toronto, Ontario
Canada

Francis
New Britain, CT
United States

Eug and Jo
Watertown, MA
United States

JUSTIN
Sparks, NV
United States

Michael
Farmington Hills, MI
United States

Andrea & Anna
Houston, TX
United States

Mary
Gibsonia, PA
United States

Anonymous
BIRMINGHAM, AL
United States



Top Lending Teams for this entrepreneur


lending team
Religious Congregations
5 Members

Julia & Russell's Wedding
Events
34 Members

Journal entries for Dorcas Bentil


Loan has been disbursed
 
Entrepreneur: Dorcas Bentil
Location: Cape Coast, Ghana

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Dorcas Bentil by Sinapi Aba Trust (SAT) in Ghana. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the 5 months of this loan, Sinapi Aba Trust (SAT) will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.


Posted by from Cape Coast, Ghana
Apr 11, 2009
Comment on this entry

Kiva Help Repayment Schedule for Dorcas Bentil

  Expected Repayments Actual Repayments Comments
July 2009 $145.00 $145.00 Repayment Received
August 2009 $145.00 $145.00 Repayment Received
September 2009 $217.50 $217.50 Repayment Received
October 2009 $145.00 $145.00 Repayment Received
November 2009 $72.50 $72.50 Repayment Received