Mrs. Suo Chan Thea's Village Bank Group

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to the Mrs. Suo Chan Thea's Village Bank group, consisting of Suo Chan Thea, Ruos Lorn, Am Chay Den, Sok Thoeurn, Men Phea, Hem Sarom, Khoem Solly, Suon Mon, Dol Sotha Vy, Sou Chanthorn, Trey Khoemhieng, Yorng Brouk, Doung Then, Pory Larm, Bun Suo by AMK in Cambodia. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the next 12 months, AMK will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.

Suo Chan Thea (leader of the Suo Chan Thea Village Bank) and four other members have paid back their portion of the group loan early! We had a chance to visit Mrs. Suo Chan Thea in the Chamka Tamao Village of Cambodia’s Kompong Chhnang Province.

Mrs. Suo Chan Thea is a homemaker who occasionally helps her husband on the rice farm. She used her loan from AMK to buy her son a bicycle. She told us that they are able to save close to $1USD a day because her son no longer needs to pay for transportation to work. She plans to start utilizing this savings by starting a personal savings account for her family. Additionally, she used the remaining money from the loan to build a new toilet for her home. She is happy with the improvement in her family’s living condition and hopes to take another personal loan out to fix the very basic kitchen in her house.

Two of her children work in a hotel while the one using the new bicycle works in a garment factory.

Suo Chan Thea and her family thank the Kiva lenders for funding their loan through AMK!

Be sure to read more about Kiva's excellent partner MFI in Cambodia, AMK (http://www.kiva.org/about/aboutPartner?id=109).

And, make another loan to one of AMK's currently fundraising clients! (http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&partner_id=109&status=fundRaising&sortBy=New+to+Old)