Philomena Persah

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Philomena Persah by Christian Rural Aid Network (CRAN) in Ghana. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the 6 months of this loan, Christian Rural Aid Network (CRAN) will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.

Together with her husband, her mother and one child, Philomina lives in a small apartment in Cape Coast/Elmina. She trades with fish. A big problem for fish-traders in Elmina is, that the fish is not always available or only to increased prices, without any chance to get profit from it.

This is one reason, why Philomina decided to take a microloan form the Christian Rural Aid Network (CRAN), to cope with those difficulties. She also reinvest a great part of her loan in her business, to buy fish. Her income increased noticeably, so she is able to cope with any kind of financial problems she had before.

Philomina hopes, that her business goes on increasing and she will be able to send her child to school, if possible, for a much better education than she received.

She thanks every lender for giving her the chance to achieve those hopes and dreams of her life. “May God bless all of them”.

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.