Fatmata Shaw


Status: Paying Back

$925.00   Loan Amount
30% repaid

About the Entrepreneur

Name: Fatmata Shaw
Location: Makeni, Sierra Leone
Activity: Food Market

About the Loan

Loan Amount: $925.00
Loan Use: Invest in her business
Repayment Term: 12 months - View details below
Lenders Repaid: Monthly
Currency Exchange Loss: Covered
Date Listed: Jul 28, 2009
Date Disbursed: Jul 17, 2009
Date Funded:Jul 29, 2009

About the Country

Country:Sierra Leone
Avg Annual Income:$903.00
Currency:Sierra Leone Leones (SLL)
Exchange Rate:3,274.0000 SLL = 1 USD



Fatmata Shaw is a small-scale businesswoman in the city of Makeni, in northern Sierra Leone. Fatmata is requesting a loan of Le 3,000,000 from Kiva lenders in order to boost her business. With the help of a loan, Fatmata will be able to expand her business so that both sales and profit will improve for her. As such, Fatmata’s living standard will improve; she will be able to better look after herself, her children, and other family members.



Fatmata is thirty-two years of age. She was born in Makeni and is married to a businessman; they have four children. Two of her children are in Junior Secondary schools and the other two are in primary schools. Fatmata sells ground-nuts; palm-oil (the most popular cooking oil), pepper and other locally produced market-food. She has been a businesswoman for ten years now.



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Journal entries for Fatmata Shaw


Loan has been disbursed
 
Entrepreneur: Fatmata Shaw
Location: Makeni, Sierra Leone

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Fatmata Shaw by Salone Microfinance Trust (SMT), a partner of ChildFund International in Sierra Leone. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the 10 months of this loan, Salone Microfinance Trust (SMT), a partner of ChildFund International will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.


Posted by from Makeni, Sierra Leone
Jul 30, 2009
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Kiva Help Repayment Schedule for Fatmata Shaw

  Expected Repayments Actual Repayments Comments
October 2009 $92.50 $0.00 Repayment Received
November 2009 $92.50 $185.00 Repayment Received
December 2009 $92.50 $92.50 Repayment Received
January 2010 $92.50 Available Jan 1  
February 2010 $92.50 Available Feb 1  
March 2010 $92.50 Available Mar 1  
April 2010 $92.50 Available Apr 1  
May 2010 $92.50 Available May 1  
June 2010 $92.50 Available Jun 1  
July 2010 $92.50 Available Jul 1