Ruth Brasbey


Status: Paid Back

$425.00   Loan Request
$425.00   Paid Back

About the Entrepreneur

Name: Ruth Brasbey
Location: Mampong, Ghana
Activity: Used Clothing

About the Loan

Loan Amount: $425.00
Loan Use: Buy bails of clothes to resell.
Repayment Term: 8 months - View details below
Lenders Repaid: Monthly
Currency Exchange Loss: Covered
Date Listed: Mar 30, 2009
Date Disbursed: Mar 26, 2009
Date Funded:Mar 30, 2009
Loan Ended:Oct 15, 2009

About the Country

Country:Ghana
Avg Annual Income:$2,643.00
Currency:Ghana Cedis (GHS)
Exchange Rate:1.4135 GHS = 1 USD



Ruth Brasbey is fifty years old. She is married and has given birth to two children. She says one in tertiary, while the other is in senior high school.


She works to make some income to support her husband financially, to take care of the family. She lives with her husband and children in a rented apartment in Mampong, in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Her husband is a farmer and Ruth is a trader.


Ruth deals in all kinds of textiles – shirts, shorts, pants, etc. She buys from Kumasi and hawks to sell in her community. Ruth also treks to villages to sell. Ruth has been in business for twenty years and wants a loan to procure more bales of textiles. She hopes to improve her living standard and sponsor her children’s education.


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Journal entries for Ruth Brasbey


Loan has been disbursed
 
Entrepreneur: Ruth Brasbey
Location: Mampong, Ghana

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Ruth Brasbey by Sinapi Aba Trust (SAT) in Ghana. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the 5 months of this loan, Sinapi Aba Trust (SAT) will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.


Posted by from Mampong, Ghana
Mar 31, 2009
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Kiva Help Repayment Schedule for Ruth Brasbey

  Expected Repayments Actual Repayments Comments
July 2009 $85.00 $85.00 Repayment Received
August 2009 $85.00 $85.00 Repayment Received
September 2009 $127.50 $127.50 Repayment Received
October 2009 $85.00 $85.00 Repayment Received
November 2009 $42.50 $42.50 Repayment Received