Ever

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Ever by Microfinanzas PRISMA in Peru. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the next 6 months, Microfinanzas PRISMA will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.

Mr. Ever Rojas Quiquia is married with 2 children ages 6 and 4. He is a well-known weaver of flower (or flower-sellers) tapestries in the artist pueblo of San Pedro de Cajas in the sierra Junín province of Peru. He used your loan to buy more materials for his weaving business. In his house there are three machines: one for him, one for his wife, and one for a worker that he hires. Ever has worked as a weaver from 3am to 8pm, Monday through Saturday for 8 years. For the past three of those years, he has had a Bolivian buyer come and buy 12 of his tapestries every month. Each one of Ever’s tapestries sells for 90 to 95 soles; his wife and worker sell theirs elsewhere. It takes him two days to make one of his flower scene tapestries. They are large ones, typically 1 meter by 1 meter 90 centimeters. In addition to his weaving, Ever owns 48 sheep that his wife and mother take care of. He uses his weaving profits to buy more sheep that he then sells for wool (key ingredient in local weaving industry) and meat. Thank you for supporting Ever’s business.