Siaivao Talataiga

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Siaivao Talataiga 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.

Siaivao Talataiga is 67 years old and has 5 children. She is a member of Vailoa Aleipata center which is located in eastern/ Upolu island. She has Plantation business, which she has been engaged in for 4 years. The loan officer who is in charge of her center says Siaivao 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 taro crops and bananna crops,fertilizer, coromozone and sting chemicals bushknifes, spade, digger, trailer, and home improvement for her business. She says her business is doing well. On good days she makes 200 Tala a day (1Tala=0.4USD) and on bad days she makes 100 Tala a day. She also says that the Kiva loans and SPBD loans are not only helping her business grows, 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 “She took out another loan of $1750 for the 3rd time from Kiva to SPBD to help maintain her plantation and she will continue to be part of the SPBD Programme for a while until she is able to sustain her plantation herself with the earnings from the plantation.