Mercy Abang

Mercy Abang is from the village of Mambajao, Camiguin. She is 31 years old. Mercy is married with 5 school-aged children. To make a living, Mercy owns and operates a business venture in the food sector making and selling food. While not the only means for generating revenue, the main source of income for the business comes primarily from selling specialty food products in the local community. Mercy has been engaged in her business for over 3 years and earns approximately 3000 PHP a month from these activities.

In 2009, Mercy joined HSPFI to gain access to financial services to help improve her living situation and ability to engage in business activities. Mercy is requesting a new loan of 4000 PHP which will be used to purchase additional products to sell. This loan will be the 1st loan taken out by Mercy from HSPFI. She plans to use the additional revenue generated from the business to improve/expand her business.

About HSPFI:

HSPFI is one of the accredited partners of Opportunity International in the Philippines. It is based in Cagayan de Oro City and is reaching out to the poor households of Northern Mindanao.

*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, we created this template for our field staff to allow them to continue to post loans in English while providing quality and accurate information to Kiva lenders.



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