Joyce Aguma


Status: Paying Back

$325.00   Loan Amount
0% repaid

About the Entrepreneur

Name: Joyce Aguma
Location: Kampala, Uganda
Activity: General Store

About the Loan

Loan Amount: $325.00
Loan Use: To buy more bags of sugar and rice, cartons of salt, and boxes of soap
Repayment Term: 5 months - View details below
Lenders Repaid: Monthly
Currency Exchange Loss: Possible
Date Listed: Nov 7, 2009
Date Disbursed: Nov 4, 2009
Date Funded:Nov 7, 2009

About the Country

Country:Uganda
Avg Annual Income:$1,700.00
Currency:Uganda Shillings (UGX)
Exchange Rate:1,885.0000 UGX = 1 USD



Joyce is a 27-year-old single mother. She has a seven-year-old child who goes to school, and she also takes care of additional family members. She rents a two-roomed house where she lives with two people, and has access to electricity and piped water.


Joyce works seven days a week. She sells food and other items to all sorts of people and, on average, receives 20 customers a day. Her residence works as her business premises. She incurs additional transport costs traveling to and from Nakawa market, one of the busiest markets in Uganda.


Joyce has been in this business for five years, and has also been with Kiva partner MCDT for five years. She is now servicing her twentieth loan. Her monthly expenses include rent for her residence and business premises, school fees for her child, and food for her family. Joyce wants to use this loan to buy more bags of sugar and rice, boxes of soap, and cartons of salt. She aspires to see her business grow bigger and hopes to start selling wholesale only.


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Journal entries for Joyce Aguma


Loan has been disbursed
 
Entrepreneur: Joyce Aguma
Location: Kampala, Uganda

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Joyce Aguma by Micro Credit for Development and Transformation SACCO (MCDT SACCO) in Uganda. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the 3 months of this loan, Micro Credit for Development and Transformation SACCO (MCDT SACCO) will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.


Posted by from Kampala, Uganda
Nov 8, 2009
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Kiva Help Repayment Schedule for Joyce Aguma

  Expected Repayments Actual Repayments Comments
January 2010 $60.94 Available Jan 1  
February 2010 $101.56 Available Feb 1  
March 2010 $81.25 Available Mar 1  
April 2010 $81.25 Available Apr 1