Mary Kalenganire’s Group


Status: Paid Back

$550.00   Loan Request
$550.00   Paid Back

About the Group

Group Name: Mary Kalenganire’s Group
Group Members: Mary Kalenganire
Agnes Namwanje
Hamidah Nassanga
Eseza Lubega
Location: Kampala, Uganda
Activity: Construction

About the Loan

Loan Amount: $550.00
Loan Use: To build a house in the plot she bought from previous loans
Repayment Term: 7 months - View details below
Lenders Repaid: Monthly
Currency Exchange Loss: Covered
Date Listed: Nov 1, 2008
Date Disbursed: Nov 15, 2008
Date Funded:Nov 1, 2008
Loan Ended:Apr 15, 2009

About the Country

Country:Uganda
Avg Annual Income:$1,700.00
Currency:Uganda Shillings (UGX)
Exchange Rate:2,000.0000 UGX = 1 USD



Mary is a leader of 4 members of a group. She is a 50-year-old widowed woman with 5 children, aged between 30 and 20. One of her children goes to school. Mary takes care of additional family members. She resides in and rents a 3-room house, where she is staying with 6 people. They have electricity and piped water at home.


The family gets 3 meals a day. She resides and works in a semi-urban area that is on the outskirts of Kampala. Mary operates a retail shop in Kamwokya Kifumbira, one of the city suburbs, and buys her products from Kampala City. Mary uses public transport to get back and forth to her business. She sells to all categories of people. She sells to an average of 20 people a day, and her monthly expenses include school fees, medication, and food for the family.


Mary works 7 days a week and has been with MCDT for 3 years, servicing her sixth loan. She wants to use this loan to build a house in the plot she bought from previous loans.



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Journal entries for Mary Kalenganire’s Group


Loan has been disbursed
 
Entrepreneur: Mary Kalenganire’s Group
Location: Kampala, Uganda

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to the Mary Kalenganire’s Group group, consisting of Mary Kalenganire, Agnes Namwanje, Hamidah Nassanga, Eseza Lubega by Micro Credit Development Trust SACCO (MCDT) in Uganda. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the next 4 months, Micro Credit Development Trust SACCO (MCDT) will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.


Posted by from Kampala, Uganda
Nov 16, 2008
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JOURNAL
 
Entrepreneur: Mary Kalenganire’s Group
Location: Kampala, Uganda

Mary runs a retail shop to earn a leaving.

She used the loan she received from MCDT to increase on her stock she also used part of to working assts for her self

Mary complains of lack of enough capital to stock her shop to her liking

The reason why she opted to do this kind of business id because she didn’t have enough money to rent one. She used part of her house to open up a small retail shop.

Since joining MCDT she has managed to purchase a refrigerator so she now also sell soft drinks,

She is also able to take all her children to school and the meet the basic needs of her family.

Mary hopes to continue increasing on her stock

And she wants to for her children until they graduate from university


Posted by Olivia Kayongo from Kampala, Uganda
Feb 16, 2009
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Kiva Help Repayment Schedule for Mary Kalenganire’s Group

  Expected Repayments Actual Repayments Comments
February 2009 $137.50 $137.50 Repayment Received
March 2009 $137.50 $137.50 Repayment Received
April 2009 $137.50 $137.50 Repayment Received
May 2009 $137.50 $137.50 Repayment Received