Andresa Taucan

Andresa Taucan is from the village of Clarin. She is 58 years old. Andresa is married and has two adult children. To make a living, Andresa raises livestock. The main source of income for the business comes primarily from raising pigs for sale. Andresa has been engaged in her business for more than eight years and earns approximately 2,000 PHP a month from these activities.

In 2003, Andresa joined PMPC to gain access to financial services to help improve her living situation and ability to engage in business activities. Andresa has successfully repaid a previous loan of 15,000 PHP from PMPC. Andresa is requesting a new loan of 15000 PHP which will be used to purchase livestock feed and other supplies. This loan will be the ninth taken out by Andresa from PMPC. She plans to use the additional revenue generated from the business to improve the general living conditions of her family.

About PMPC:

Paglaum Multi-Purpose Cooperative (PMPC) is one of the most progressive cooperatives in northwestern Mindanao. It reaches out to the rural poor using the Grameen model.

*Note: To maximize efficiency and reduce costs, this loan was posted using a template to automate the translation by Kiva. Given that manual translation of entrepreneur profiles is costly, Kiva created this template for our Field Partner to allow them to continue to post loans in English while providing quality and accurate information to Kiva lenders.

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