Mujeres En Progreso Group

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to the Mujeres en Progreso group, consisting of Aridaysi Bautista Beln, Vickiana Sanchez, Lili Cabrera, Cecilia Alejoa Gonzalez, Jackeline Hernandez Adamez, Griserda Santos, Morel Bautista Dariana, Ana De Los Santos, Ana Bautista Belen, Yannery Paez Nunez, Lourdes Hernandez, Angela Parra Chala, Digna Pena Segura, Alexandra Rosario, Ramona De La Rosa by Esperanza International in Dominican Republic. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the next 6 months, Esperanza International will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.

This week I had the opportunity to catch up with a longtime member to Mujeres en Progreso to see how her loan cycle went. For the past 17 years, she has been selling Avon products by catalog and just joined up with Esperanza two loan cycles ago. When she took out this loan, she was able to buy many more products for her customers to buy since she had more initial capital to be able to afford to buy in higher quantities for better prices. During her time with Esperanza, she feels like she has become a better businesswoman. She has taken advantage of more of the "special offers" that the company offers to it's sellers which allows to gain even more money. She's used her earnings to feed her family (two older children and her husband) as well as fix her dining room table. In the future, she would like to make enough money to buy a stove for her house since cooking over an open fire is dangerous, complicated, and bad for one's health. She thanks you all for your support in her future!