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In the city of Portoviejo the members of the "Las Decididas" communal bank meet every fortnight This is a group of people with a variety of businesses to improve their quality of living. They work in commerce, selling food and amongst other activities.
Rosa lives in this place. She is 42 years old. married and from this relationship has five children aged 22, 20, 16, 15 and 13 years old. All of them still live with her, two study in university and the younger ones in secondary school. Her husband is a metal worker.
Rosa is a housewife who in order to obtain her own resources and help her husband with the household expenses works selling Avon and Yanbal products from catalogs (beauty products, cosmetics, perfume and accessories for women). She sells from door to door. She will also give part of the loan to her husband who has a shop where he makes a great variety of products made from steel. She has 7 years working in this business and her husband has many more and this is how they manage to give their children a good education which is very important to her.
This loan is to buy perfume, cream, cosmetics, jewellery and steel for her husband's workshop. She has been in the communal bank for more than 3 years and she likes it as the loans allow her to get ahead. Her dream is to provide good education for her children.
Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer leonardo. View original language description.
