Senitima Toa

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Senitima Toa by South Pacific Business Development in Samoa. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the next 18 - 24 months, South Pacific Business Development will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.

Senitima Toa is 46 years old and has 5 children. She is a member of Samatau 4 center which is located in Western UPOLU. She has Foodstall business, which she has been engaged in for 4 years. The loan officer who is in charge of her center says Senitima is a very good member. She repays her loan on time, always attends her weekly meetings, and is enthusiastic about expanding her business.

She has used her previous loan to purchase flour,meat,baking powder,sack of sugar,syrups for her business. She says her business is doing well. On good days she makes 600 Tala a day (1Tala=0.4USD) and on bad days she makes 650 Tala a day. She also says that the Kiva loans and SPBD loans are not only helping her business grow, but also helping her pay her children’s school fees, feed her family better, and improve her housing.

When asked if she has any words to the Kiva lenders, she said “Senitima is doing well on her business, she said that she used her previous loan to improve her business, she look forward for the next loan, she will build up a proper and small apartment to sell her stuff. She also thanked to the KIVA Lenders and SPBD for helping her business grow well.”