Paula Tanuvasa

Paula Tanuvasa is a 39-year-old woman living in the town of Alamutu E. She is married and has three school-aged children. To make a living, Paula owns & operates a business selling fried foods in the local community. Paula has been engaged in this business for over three years and earns approximately 400 WST a month from these activities.

Paula joined SPBD to gain access to financial services to help improve her living situation and ability to engage in business activities. Paula has successfully repaid a previous loan of 750 WST from SPBD. This previous loan was used to purchase raw ingredients needed to make products for sale. Paula is now requesting a new loan of 1500 WST which will be used to purchase raw ingredients needed to make products for sale. The loan will be the third loan taken out by Paula from SPBD. Paula plans to use the additional revenue generated from the business to improve/expand her business.

About SPBD:
SPBD's mission is to improve the quality of life of people living in poverty in the poor island nations of the South Pacific. SPBD's philosophy of lending is based on a respect for each individual's innate human ingenuity, drive and self esteem.

*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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