Irene Chavez Delgado

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Irene Chavez Delgado by Admic Nacional in Mexico. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the next 6 months, Admic Nacional will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.

For the last four years Irene has been making gorditas on a busy street corner in Guadalupe, Zacatecas. She has taken somewhere between six and eight loans with ADMIC, the local Kiva partner. Two of the loans were used with Kiva funds.

Gorditas are more popular than the taco in the state of Zacatecas. Gorditas are made with a thicker version of a tortilla. It is opened and stuffed with the typical fillings- meat, beans, cheese, or chicken. On Saturdays she makes tacos and hamburgers.

Irene started her business renting a store front from a neighbor. The original loan pictures show her inside the restaurant space. She decided that her income wasn't sufficient to justify the rent to she built a "tabarete", a wooden stand with a tin roof on the corner next door.

She uses her loans to keep her with the supplies she needs for her business, particularly in the difficult winter months. November and December have a business slow down due to the numerous family parties that take customers away from her. January and February are difficult business months everywhere as people focus on repaying debt accumulated during the Christmas holidays.

The "crisis" comes up as a concern for Irene for the next few months. But she is ready for "lo que venga" or what the year brings.