Esi Bosua

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Esi Bosua 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.

Esi lives together with her child in a rented apartment. Her child is going to school, she herself receive 9 years of school.

To sell sweets in the streets of Cape Coast is Esi’s daily bread, but competition is a big challenge. To be able to handle such financial difficulties, 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.

Esi has plans to build a bigger store and dreams of her own land.

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.