Comfort Mbia

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Comfort Mbia 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.

Comfort lives together with her husband, who is a fisherman and taxi driver, and her two children, both of them going to basic school. She trades with equipment, which is needed to smoke fish, beside that she is also selling provisions. She decided to take a microloan from the Christian Rural Aid Network (CRAN), to expand and improve her business.

Before Comfort received the loan, she had to buy this type of equipment in Elmina for high prices, that reduced her profit, because it had to be transported from Accra, the capital of Ghana, to Elmina. The credits, with very high interest, she had to get, to buy the equipment, were another problem.

Now, after receiving the loan from CRAN, she is able to buy her goods directly in Accra, for cheaper prices and she is able to pay it from her profit, which increased. Beside her business, Comfort is very proud of her collecting of blocks, she just started, to build a house for her children, some time.

To expand her business and to buy a vehicle for commercial use, as a taxi, are her hopes at the moment. Comfort want to thank all the lenders, for giving her the chance to build her dreams, “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.