Elizabeth Cobbina

Elizabeth Cobbina is thirty-two years old. She is married and has three children, a boy and two girls. Two of her children are in primary school. Her youngest is not of school age yet. Elizabeth lives with her husband and children in a rented apartment in the small town of Simpa, a farming community a few kilometers from Tarkwa, in western Ghana. Her husband is a cocoa farmer, and she is a food vendor.

Elizabeth prepares "rice kenkey" (a fermented dumpling that is partially cooked and then steamed) and distributes to retailers in her community. She uses local rice to prepare the kenkey. She prepares rice kenkey by pounding the rice, mixing it with salt, wrapping balls of the meal in plantain leaves, and then cooking. Elizabeth also sells in the local market in addition to distributing to retailers. She has been in this business for seven years. Her hope is to save enough to supplement the family income so that she and her husband can take good care of the family. She would use the loan to buy local rice in bulk.

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