Merlyn Delsocora

Merlyn Delsocora is from the village of Lilingayon, Valencia City. She is 55 years old. Merlyn is married and has 5 adult children. To make a living, Merlyn owns and operates a specialized retail business. The main source of income for the business comes from selling books to customers. Merlyn has been engaged in her business for over 3 years and earns approximately 7,000 PHP a month for these activities.

In 2009, Merlyn joined HSPFI to gain access to financial services to help improve her living situation and ability to engage in business activities. Merlyn is requesting a loan of 5,000 PHP which will be used to purchase additional products to sell. This will be the 1st loan taken out by Merlyn from HSPFI. She plans to use the additional revenue generated from the business to supplement the income of the family.

About HSPFI:

HSPFI is an accredited partner of Opportunity International in the Philippines. It is based in Cagayan de Oro City and reaches 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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