Chona Ondin

Chona Ondin is from the village of Danao. She is 46 years old. Chona is married. To make a living, Chona owns and operates a fishing business. While not the only means for generating revenue, the main source of income for the business comes from harvesting and selling ocean-caught fish in the local community. Chona has been engaged in her business for over 10 years and earns approximately 3,000 PHP a month for these activities.

In 2008, Chona joined PMPC to gain access to financial services to help improve her living situation and ability to engage in business activities. Chona has successfully repaid a previous loan of 7,000 PHP from PMPC. Chona is requesting a new loan of 10,000 PHP which will be used to purchase a fishing boat. This will be the 2nd loan taken out by Chona from PMPC. She plans to use the additional revenue generated from the business to improve/expand her business.

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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