Catherine Ndigai Karanja


Status: Ended with Loss - Defaulted

$1,200.00   Loan Request
$0.00   Paid Back

About the Entrepreneur

Name: Catherine Ndigai Karanja
Location: Nairobi City, Kenya
Activity: Beauty Salon

About the Loan

Loan Amount: $1,200.00
Loan Use: buy three hair driers and pay school fees for her children
Repayment Term: 12 months - View details below
Lenders Repaid: Monthly
Currency Exchange Loss: N/A
Date Listed: Jun 1, 2007
Date Disbursed: Jun 16, 2007
Date Funded:Jun 2, 2007

About the Country

Country:Kenya
Avg Annual Income:$1,445.00
Currency:United States Dollars (USD)



Catherine Ndigai Karanja is 36 years old. She is married, with three children; all of them are in primary school. After she completed her secondary education in the late 1990s, she joined a secretarial college and after completing this course she got a job where she worked for one year. She got married and joined her husband in selling motor vehicles spare parts. In 2002, she joined WEEC and last year she opened a salon. She has benefited from the loan she got of $600, with which she bought chemicals for the salon. She has applied for a loan of $1200, which she intends to use to buy three hair driers and pay school fees for her children. She is willing to repay this loan within a period of 12 months.

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Journal entries for Catherine Ndigai Karanja


Loan has been disbursed
 
Entrepreneur: Catherine Ndigai Karanja
Location: Nairobi City, Kenya

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Catherine Ndigai Karanja by Women`s Economic Empowerment Consort in Kenya. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the next 10 - 18 months, Women`s Economic Empowerment Consort will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.


Posted by from Nairobi City, Kenya
Jun 17, 2007
Comments (3)

WEEC loan default
 
Entrepreneur: Catherine Ndigai Karanja
Location: Nairobi City, Kenya

Kiva recently notified you that your loan to the business or businesses above will not be repaid in full and is now considered defaulted. As a reminder, any amount of this loan that has been collected by Kiva is available to you as Kiva Credit. You can re-lend this Kiva Credit to another business, withdraw it or donate to Kiva on our website: www.kiva.org.

Reason for default:

All entrepreneur profiles on Kiva’s website are posted by local Field Partners. This particular business was posted by our Kenyan Field Partner, the Women’s Economic Empowerment Consort (WEEC).

WEEC is currently experiencing significant operational difficulties that have caused all active WEEC loans to default. It is important to note that in many cases the entrepreneur repaid the loan to WEEC in full and did benefit from your loan. However, WEEC has experienced operational problems caused by a number of factors, including the unexpected death of WEEC’s founder and Executive Director, poor management of funds, and economic and political unrest in Kenya. Together, these factors produced a situation where Kiva is unable to get a 100% clear account of your specific loan and recover your full loan amount from WEEC.

To learn more, please visit:

www.kiva.org/about/aboutPartner?id=6

We hope you realize that this outcome is an exception to the norm when lending at Kiva and that you’ll give lending another chance. If you have any questions, please let us know and thanks again for your ongoing support.

Sincerely,

Shelby Clark

Kiva Staff


Posted by Shelby Clark from Nairobi City, Kenya
Jun 5, 2008
Comments (82)

Kiva Help Repayment Schedule for Catherine Ndigai Karanja

  Expected Repayments Actual Repayments Comments
September 2007 $120.00 $0.00 Delinquent
October 2007 $120.00 $0.00 Delinquent
November 2007 $120.00 $0.00 Delinquent
December 2007 $120.00 $0.00 Delinquent
January 2008 $120.00 $0.00 Delinquent
February 2008 $120.00 $0.00 Delinquent
March 2008 $120.00 $0.00 Delinquent
April 2008 $120.00 $0.00 Delinquent
May 2008 $120.00 $0.00 Delinquent
June 2008 $120.00 $0.00 Delinquent