Gauula Kalapu


Status: Paid Back

$850.00   Loan Request
$850.00   Paid Back

About the Entrepreneur

Name: Gauula Kalapu
Location: Matautu Uta, Samoa
Activity: Crafts

About the Loan

Loan Amount: $850.00
Loan Use: to purchase merchandise for her stall
Repayment Term: 20 months - View details below
Lenders Repaid: Monthly
Currency Exchange Loss: N/A
Date Listed: Jun 29, 2007
Date Disbursed: Jul 16, 2007
Date Funded:Jul 2, 2007
Loan Ended:Feb 18, 2009

About the Country

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



Gauula is 49 years old. She runs a flea market business selling different varieties of popular Samoan products. Gauula stocks Samoan dresses (puletasis), jewelry, hand-woven handbags and other handmade handicrafts. Gauula has used SPBD’s microloan facilities to periodically re-stock her stall (she purchases merchandise from village tailors and handicraft artists) and expand her product line. She is determined to expand her business and is thus seeking loan funds. Gauula says that she now earns enough money to pay for her children’s school expenses, make her loan repayments and fund small improvements to her family’s home. This is financial progress that Gauula is rightfully very proud of.

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Lenders to this entrepreneur

Kathy
Quincy, MA
United States

Julie
Union Bay, B.C.
Canada

Peter
kivafriends.org, Brighton, England
United Kingdom

Karen
Woodland, CA
United States

Max
Page, AZ
United States

Rosemary
Moscow, ID
United States

Maiysha
New York, NY
United States

Bronwyn
Waitakere,
New Zealand

Amy
Washington, DC
United States

Diedre
fullerton, CA
United States

John C. Kirkland
Southern California,
United States

Minh
Pleasant Hill, CA
United States

Steve
Rochester, NY
United States

Hilde
Seattle, WA
United States

Miamy
Delray Beach, FL
United States

Will
Arvada, CO
United States

Wendy
Sacramento, CA
United States

Newton North High School
Newton, MA
United States

Jon and Melissa
Helsinki,
Finland

Susan S.
Irvine, CA
United States

Linda
Camas, WA
United States

Maryanne
Phoenix, AZ
United States

Jordan
Yardley, PA
United States



Journal entries for Gauula Kalapu


Loan has been disbursed
 
Entrepreneur: Gauula Kalapu
Location: Matautu Uta, Samoa

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Gauula Kalapu by South Pacific Business Development in Samoa. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the next 18 - 18 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 Matautu Uta, Samoa
Jul 14, 2007
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KIVA JOURNAL FOR GAUULA KALAPU
 
Entrepreneur: Gauula Kalapu
Location: Matautu Uta, Samoa

Gauula Kalapu is 50 years old and has 2 children. She is a member of Matautu Uta B center which is located in Western Upolu.

She paid off her loan in full, and she's no longer in the program.She says that the Kiva loans and SPBD loans are not only helping her business grow, but also helping her pay her children’s school fees, feed her family better, and improve her housing.


Posted by Isabel Tuatagaloa from Matautu Uta, Samoa
Jan 15, 2009
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Kiva Help Repayment Schedule for Gauula Kalapu

  Expected Repayments Actual Repayments Comments
October 2007 $47.22 $0.00 Repayment Received
November 2007 $47.22 $48.00 Repayment Received
December 2007 $47.22 $48.00 Repayment Received
January 2008 $47.22 $48.00 Repayment Received
February 2008 $47.22 $48.00 Repayment Received
March 2008 $47.22 $96.00 Repayment Received
April 2008 $47.22 $0.00 Repayment Received
May 2008 $47.22 $48.00 Repayment Received
June 2008 $47.22 $48.00 Repayment Received
July 2008 $47.22 $96.00 Repayment Received
August 2008 $47.22 $48.00 Repayment Received
September 2008 $47.22 $0.00 Repayment Received
October 2008 $47.22 $96.00 Repayment Received
November 2008 $47.22 $0.00 Repayment Received
December 2008 $47.22 $0.00 Repayment Received
January 2009 $47.22 $131.52 Repayment Received
February 2009 $47.22 $47.22 Repayment Received
March 2009 $47.26 $47.26 Repayment Received