Zainabu Namalocho

Mambo (Greetings!) from Tanzania! This is 21 year old Zainabu S Namalocho from Morogoro. She is married with one child, who has four months old. Zainabu has been running an African traditional cloth since 2006.

She sells traditional clothing worn by Tanzanian women, called kanga and vitenge. The kanga is a piece of printed cotton fabric often with a border along all four sides. It is printed using the silkscreen method with its pattern in frames. Kitenge (the Swahili plural is vitenge) is a cotton fabric with wax print, printed by using rotary printing machines. Kitenge is a communicating textile - the various colors, patterns, writings and symbols represent moods, feelings, cultures, and traditions of native African people.

She works at the business for 9to 12 hours per day, seven days per week and she has no one to assist her. Zainabu is requesting a loan of 300,000 Tsh in order to purchase additional cloth in bulk. In the future, she plans to increase the quantity and range of the stocks. Zainabu thanks you for her support!

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SELFINA has taken a lead role as a pioneer of micro-credit in Tanzania through Micro-Leasing. The organization is engaged in the economic empowerment of women in Tanzania through the provision of a leasing and leaseback microfinance facility. Customs and traditions in Tanzania make it difficult for women to own land and assets, thus they are termed non-creditworthy by financial institutions. This leads to poor financial support and poor access to basic needs and services for women with low incomes. One of the primary advantages of micro leasing is that is allows clients to use the equipment as collateral for future loans with SELFINA, thus enabling them to borrow larger sums in the future.

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