Caroline Sua


Status: Paid Back

$850.00   Loan Request
$850.00   Paid Back

About the Entrepreneur

Name: Caroline Sua
Location: Moamoa, Samoa
Activity: Sewing

About the Loan

Loan Amount: $850.00
Loan Use: Purchase material and set of sewing tools.
Repayment Term: 14 months - View details below
Lenders Repaid: Monthly
Currency Exchange Loss: N/A
Date Listed: Jun 7, 2007
Date Disbursed: Jun 22, 2007
Date Funded:Jun 8, 2007
Loan Ended:Sep 8, 2008

About the Country

Country:Samoa
Avg Annual Income:$6,344.00
Currency:United States Dollars (USD)



Caroline Sua is a thirty-eight year old married mother of three. Her business is sewing, and she specializes in making popular Samoan styles of men’s shirts (Aloa) and ladies’ dresses (Puletasi). Her domestic duties allow her to sew four days a week, and she can fill the orders of five to eight customers each day. Working at this pace, she can make sales of about ST 200 (USD 80) each working day. Caroline used an initial SPBD loan to launch her business by purchasing a sewing machine. Having repaid this loan and established a good customer base, she is now seeking a second loan. With this loan she will begin purchasing her own material rather than asking her customers to supply it for her to fulfill their orders. She thinks this will greatly improve her customer service and expects that she can further increase her customer base this way.

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Journal entries for Caroline Sua


Loan has been disbursed
 
Entrepreneur: Caroline Sua
Location: Moamoa, Samoa

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Caroline Sua by South Pacific Business Development in Samoa. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the next 12 - 16 months, South Pacific Business Development will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.


Posted by Team Editing from Moamoa, Samoa
Jul 14, 2007
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Update on Caroline's business
 
Entrepreneur: Caroline Sua
Location: Moamoa, Samoa

Caroline Sua is 39 years old and has 3 children who are17, 14, and 7 years of age. She is a member of Moamoa K Uta center which is located in Upolu, the main island of Samoa. She has a lavalava (Samoan sarong) printing business, where she carves Samoan traditional patterns on a piece of wooden board and prints them on fabrics using colorful paints.

She has used her previous loan to purchase paints, fabrics, and wooden boards for her business. She says her business is doing well. She also says that the Kiva loans and SPBD loans are not only helping her business grow, but also helping her send her children to school, feed her family better, and improve her housing.

When asked if she has any words to the Kiva lenders, she said “Thank you for helping my business grow.”


Posted by Team Editing from Moamoa, Samoa
Sep 3, 2008
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Kiva Help Repayment Schedule for Caroline Sua

  Expected Repayments Actual Repayments Comments
September 2007 $70.83 $0.00 Repayment Received
October 2007 $70.83 $0.00 Repayment Received
November 2007 $70.83 $71.00 Repayment Received
December 2007 $70.83 $71.00 Repayment Received
January 2008 $70.83 $71.00 Repayment Received
February 2008 $70.83 $71.00 Repayment Received
March 2008 $70.83 $142.00 Repayment Received
April 2008 $70.83 $0.00 Repayment Received
May 2008 $70.83 $71.00 Repayment Received
June 2008 $70.83 $71.00 Repayment Received
July 2008 $70.83 $142.00 Repayment Received
August 2008 $70.87 $71.00 Repayment Received
October 2008 $0.00 $69.00