Rose Kawala

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Rose Kawala by Pearl Microfinance Limited in Uganda. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the next 6 - 12 months, Pearl Microfinance Limited will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.

By the time I went to Rose Kawala’s business in Nansana, she had gone to Kampala to buy fabric for her business. She has a tailoring business just at the entrance to Debby’s Salon belonging to a fellow member in her lending group, and located on the busy highway to Wakiso. Rose has three manual sewing machines for her business and because of the limited space; she keeps two at her home and would work on them at times, especially on Sundays. Customers bring to her all sorts of material to be made especially for women and children and at times she makes the clothes using her own fabric to be displayed for sale. She used her loan to buy fabric for her business and as well bought a sewing machine so as to realize her dream of opening up a sewing school for girls that drop out of school in favor of boys. Among the list of girls she has are girls that dropped out of school, married at a tender age yet the marriages ended prematurely with one or two kids to cater for. Others are childless orphans with nothing to do for a living. It’s surely a trade for future development. Before the loans, Rose had no such dreams but after associating with fellow business women, such good ideas came in for business development.