Norah Moraa

Norah Moraa is a 50-year-old woman who is separated from her husband and has four grown children, ages 32, 29, 28 and 21. She lives within the Kibera slums of Nairobi. Apart from her family she also takes care of her two granddaughters from her second-born daughter.

In 2002 Norah started her own business of selling vegetables. She started saving a little money until she managed to build fifteen rooms, which she rents to tenants. Norah gave one room to her first son and another to her third-born daughter. She felt that she needed to operate a much bigger business, so she decided to open a cereals shop. She bought cereals with the rent she collected from the tenants.

Because she was not spared during the post-election violence that occurred early this year, looters managed to clean out her shop and the stock that she had together, including the scale for weighing cereals. Now that things have started getting back to normal, Norah wants to continue with her business, but she feels she is unable to do that without support. She is now requesting a loan of Ksh 25,000 so that she can purchase another scale and also buy stock of cereals. She believes that this stock will play a major part in her business income. She also says that customers normally flock to her shop, especially during weekends and holidays. She will repay her loan within a term of twelve months

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