Fati Issah

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Fati Issah 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.

Fati is married and the caretaker of three children. Two girls, who are going to secondary school, and a one year old Baby. She lives together with them and her husband, a carpenter, in a rented house.

Fati deals with different types of oil in the streets of Elmina. Everything in Elmina depends heavily on the fishing industry, so business can be very hard, even in the ‘lane-season’, when there is no fish to catch. To handle difficulties like this, Fati decided to take a loan from the Christian Rural Aid Network (CRAN). She was able to expand her stock and to buy in larger quantities.

A big dream of her and her family is, to own land and a house, so Fati saves some money on the side.

Fati thanks every lender very much, for giving her the chance to improve her business, which helps her to fulfill her dreams 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.