Thata Mara


Status: Paying Back

$850.00   Loan Amount
9% repaid

About the Entrepreneur

Name: Thata Mara
Location: Kabala, Sierra Leone
Activity: Food Market

About the Loan

Loan Amount: $850.00
Loan Use: To invest in her business
Repayment Term: 13 months - View details below
Lenders Repaid: Monthly
Currency Exchange Loss: Possible
Date Listed: Oct 10, 2009
Date Disbursed: Sep 11, 2009
Date Funded:Oct 17, 2009

About the Country

Country:Sierra Leone
Avg Annual Income:$903.00
Currency:Sierra Leone Leones (SLL)
Exchange Rate:3,632.0000 SLL = 1 USD



This is Thata Mara, a small scale businesswoman in the town of Kabala, in northern Sierra Leone. Thata is requesting a loan of Le 3,000,000 from Kiva lenders through SMT in order to help her further strengthen her business.

Thata has, earlier on, received Kiva loans as a member of a solidarity group. With the help of those loans, she experienced a vast improvement in her business and personal life. She has been able to support her children in their education, feeding and well being; she has built herself a house with four bedrooms and a parlor and has solved many of her numerous household problems.

Thata is approximately fifty years old. She was born in Kabala town, married a lorry (truck) driver, and they have three children together. Thata sells rice, palm-oil (the most popular cooking oil), beans and groundnuts (peanuts). She has been a businesswoman for over twenty-five years now.


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Loan has been disbursed
 
Entrepreneur: Thata Mara
Location: Kabala, Sierra Leone

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Thata Mara by Salone Microfinance Trust (SMT), a partner of ChildFund International in Sierra Leone. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the 11 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 Kabala, Sierra Leone
Oct 18, 2009
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Kiva Help Repayment Schedule for Thata Mara

  Expected Repayments Actual Repayments Comments
December 2009 $77.27 $77.27 Repayment Received
January 2010 $77.28 Available Jan 1  
February 2010 $77.27 Available Feb 1  
March 2010 $77.27 Available Mar 1  
April 2010 $77.27 Available Apr 1  
May 2010 $77.28 Available May 1  
June 2010 $77.27 Available Jun 1  
July 2010 $77.27 Available Jul 1  
August 2010 $77.27 Available Aug 1  
September 2010 $77.28 Available Sep 1  
October 2010 $77.27 Available Oct 1