Adelio Alejandro

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Adelio Alejandro 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. Adelio Alejandro Amancay Soto works at his liquor store and harvests potatoes from a section of communal land in his pueblo near Huayahuasi, Peru. He plants 40 sacks of seeds and the cost of renting his 2 hectares of the communal land is 200 soles a year. Pictured with him is his wife, Senovia Tasa Puente, who tends the liquor store when Mr. Soto is out in the fields. Every week they go to Huayahuasi (hour drive down the valley) to restock their store. This is their first year with the liquor store. They use the loans to support themselves in between harvests. One day, they dream of moving to Tarma (a town of 10,000 about 3 hours away) with their seven-year-old daughter and buying a house there.

I made a video of my journey to Adelio's village and posted it on the Fellowsblog here: http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/2008/12/21/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-kiva-fellow/