Patience Amegashie

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Patience Amegashie by Christian Rural Aid Network (CRAN) in Ghana. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the 7 months of this loan, Christian Rural Aid Network (CRAN) will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.

Patience lives with her children in her own house. All of her children are going to school, she herself received seven years of school.

Selling food and provision in the streets of Cape Coast is Patience’s daily bread. Competition is a big problem. To be able to handle financial problems easier, she decided to take a microloan from the Christian Rural Aid Network (CRAN). With the help of the loan she was able to extend her range of goods and now it is more easier for her to survive bad business times. Her profit increased.

She invests her profit in for the education of her child, pays the fees, buys books and uniforms. She also does susu-saving. She saves a little of her profit every month, which helps her to pay back her loan and to deal with other financial problems in her life, business.

See her children through school is Patience’s greatest dream.

She thanks every lender very much, for giving her the chance to improve her business, which is helping her to improve her life step by step.

About Christian Rural Aid Network:

Christian Rural Aid Network is a non-governmental, rural development organization established in 1993 with the aim of promoting an improvement in the quality of life and the socio-economic development of the rural poor in Ghana. Based in Cape Coast and operating in three regions and seven different districts, CRAN’s work is based on the values of Christian motivation and obligation towards the development of the individual as a whole, employing and promoting “demand-led” or “self-help” strategies for community development and rural poverty reduction. CRAN’s mission is to “work towards the improvement in the quality of life of the rural poor, the disadvantaged and the marginalized populations and communities in a holistic fashion (physically, socially, economically and spiritually), with emphasis on the right of children to quality formal education, in addition to the economic and social empowerment of women in a professional and qualitative manner”. To learn more about CRAN, click here. To browse through profiles of recent CRAN loan applicants and to make a loan to another worthy CRAN loan client, click here.