Hold Tight Group


Status: Paying Back

$1,625.00   Loan Amount
80% repaid

About the Group

Group Name: Hold Tight Group
Group Members: Abibatu Bundu
Mohamed Bundu
Isatu Sesay
Memuna Koroma
Marie Bundu
Location: Makeni, Sierra Leone
Activity: Clothing Sales

About the Loan

Loan Amount: $1,625.00
Loan Use: Invest in business by buying ready-to-wear clothes for women
Repayment Term: 12 months - View details below
Lenders Repaid: Monthly
Currency Exchange Loss: Covered
Date Listed: Feb 20, 2009
Date Disbursed: Feb 19, 2009
Date Funded:Feb 20, 2009

About the Country

Country:Sierra Leone
Avg Annual Income:$903.00
Currency:Sierra Leone Leones (SLL)
Exchange Rate:3,089.9744 SLL = 1 USD



This is Abibatu Bundu, Mohamed Bundu, Isatu Sesay, Memuna Koroma and Marie Bundu. They call their group Hold Tight, a Krio phrase for “Be Firm”. They have received several loans from Kiva through SMT. They always repay their loans in full. Their previous loan was for Le 800,000 each. This helped them a lot. They were able to make a lot of profit from the loan, and thus were able to solve many of their problems. Today, they are requesting a loan of Le 1,000,000 each to add to their businesses.



Abibatu (right) is the leader of this group. She was born in Sanda, a small town in northern Sierra Leone. She is thirty-four years of age, married and a mother of five children between the ages of one and thirteen years. She has been a businesswoman for the past six years now. She sells ready-to-wear clothes for women and "gara lappers" (locally dyed clothes).



With this loan of Le 1,000,000, Abibatu will buy two pieces of "brillians” and more ready read-to-wear clothes for women to add into her business. (One piece of "brillian" is about thirty yards of white cotton used to dye gara clothe).




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Journal entries for Hold Tight Group


Loan has been disbursed
 
Entrepreneur: Hold Tight Group
Location: Makeni, Sierra Leone

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Hold Tight Group, consisting of Abibatu Bundu, Mohamed Bundu, Isatu Sesay, Memuna Koroma, Marie Bundu by Salone Microfinance Trust (SMT), a partner of Christian Children's Fund in Sierra Leone. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the 10 months of this loan, Salone Microfinance Trust (SMT), a partner of Christian Children's Fund will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.


Posted by from Makeni, Sierra Leone
Feb 21, 2009
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Kiva Help Repayment Schedule for Hold Tight Group

  Expected Repayments Actual Repayments Comments
April 2009 $0.00 $203.12  
May 2009 $162.50 $0.00 Repayment Received
June 2009 $162.50 $121.87 Repayment Received
July 2009 $162.50 $0.00 Repayment Received
August 2009 $162.50 $284.38 Repayment Received
September 2009 $162.50 $203.13 Repayment Received
October 2009 $162.50 $0.00 Repayment Received
November 2009 $162.50 $325.00 Repayment Received
December 2009 $162.50 $162.50 Repayment Received
January 2010 $162.50 Available Jan 1  
February 2010 $162.50 Available Feb 1