Upper Traders Group


Status: Paying Back

$4,375.00   Loan Amount
33% repaid

About the Group

(For privacy reasons, the Field Partner has requested that last names be undisclosed)
Group Name: Upper Traders Group
Group Members: Vida
Yaa
Rosina
Phylis
Sarah
Victoria
Elizabeth
Vida
Gabriel
Mary
Alice
Location: Oda, Ghana
Activity: Food Production/Sales

About the Loan

Loan Amount: $4,375.00
Loan Use: To buy more raw materials like bags of maize, millet, sugar, milk etc.
Repayment Term: 8 months - View details below
Lenders Repaid: Monthly
Currency Exchange Loss: Possible
Date Listed: Aug 28, 2009
Date Disbursed: Aug 11, 2009
Date Funded:Aug 30, 2009

About the Country

Country:Ghana
Avg Annual Income:$2,643.00
Currency:Ghana Cedis (GHS)
Exchange Rate:1.4633 GHS = 1 USD



Vida is 46 years old she is married and given birth to six children. Currently they are all in school. She sells porridge at her neighborhood. Porridge is one of the local foods enjoyed popularly as breakfast by almost all Ghanaians. It is prepared from milled maize or millet grains, boiled and taken with sugar, milk and bread or taking with what we called Kose. Kose is prepared from milled beans and it is fried with cooking oil so in just about 20minutes it is ready to be served with the porridge. With large customer base, she wants to use the loan to buy more raw materials like bags of millet, beans, sugar and milk to increase production. She hopes to raise good income to support her kids in school.

She is the leader of a trust bank group called ‘Upper Traders’ which. She is the one sitting in the group photograph. Most of the members of this group are petty traders, food vendors and farmers etc. In this group, members guarantee for one another as social collateral to access the loan and peer pressure to repay the loan.





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Journal entries for Upper Traders Group


Loan has been disbursed
 
Entrepreneur: Upper Traders Group
Location: Oda, Ghana

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Upper Traders Group, consisting of Vida, Yaa, Rosina, Phylis, Sarah, Victoria, Elizabeth, Vida, Gabriel, Mary , Alice by Sinapi Aba Trust (SAT) in Ghana. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the 6 months of this loan, Sinapi Aba Trust (SAT) will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.


Posted by from Oda, Ghana
Aug 31, 2009
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Kiva Help Repayment Schedule for Upper Traders Group

  Expected Repayments Actual Repayments Comments
November 2009 $729.17 $729.17 Repayment Received
December 2009 $729.17 $729.17 Repayment Received
January 2010 $729.17 Available Jan 1  
February 2010 $729.17 Available Feb 1  
March 2010 $729.16 Available Mar 1  
April 2010 $729.16 Available Apr 1