Kheng Kim Heng

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Kheng Kim Heng by CREDIT, a partner of World Relief in Cambodia. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the next 10 months, CREDIT, a partner of World Relief will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.

Kheng Kim Heng, 27, lives with her husband and three children in Siem Reap, Cambodia, the home of the famous Angkor Wat temple. Kheng raises pigs with her husband, and requested this loan to buy more piglets to raise.

I recently visited Kheng to ask about her family and business. Kheng said that she combined some of her savings with the loan to buy a battery charging machine for $1600. She said the family can get about $30 per day charging batteries, but much of the extra earnings must go towards paying for gasoline to power the generator. Kheng said that she can save an average of about $300 per month, a good amount relative to her neighbors.

Kheng said that her pigs are doing fine, but that sometimes she worries they will get sick. She and her husband thought that the battery charger would be a good investment, because many of the people nearby are not on the electrical grid, and use large car batteries to power the lights in their homes.

In the future, Kheng's husband wants to buy a car so he can take tourists around the temples, or drive them to the border as a taxi driver.

(For those viewing this update in email, this lender's profile can be viewed here: http://partners.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=60579, and all loans from CREDIT MFI in Cambodia can be viewed here: http://partners.kiva.org/about/aboutPartner?id=9)"

I recently visited Kheng to learn more about the loan progress. I found out that their standard of living is doing better because of the loan impact. Lately, Kheng just open a new business selling grocery from her home. This new business is able to make an extra about US$2 every day. There are no problem with her new business. In the future, she plans to purchase a tourist car for her husband so that he can start transport tourists around Angkor Wat Temple.