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Josmita, the lady standing in the middle in the photo, is a 36-year-old woman living with her husband, parents-in-law, and two children in a small village in Dhenkanal district in Odisha, India.
She has a goat farm in which she currently has ten goats. She purchases goat kids and sells them for meat to the local butcher shops when they grow. It takes 8 to 9 months for her to raise and sell them. She goes out in the morning to leave the goats grazing in the fields and returns by noon. She then helps her husband with his farming activities and then resumes taking care of her goats by feeding them at home. Her children assist her in selling and maintaining these goats.
In this way, she is earning to control her cash flow, which is not sufficient to build a toilet for her house. She says that all the earnings are used to meet the household expenses and the amount that is left after all the expenses is not sufficient to build a toilet.
Therefore Josmita, along with her other group members, is requesting for a loan amount of 45,000 INR. She will use her portion of the loan amount to purchase a latrine pan, bricks, sand, cement and all other required materials that will be used to build a toilet.
In this group: Josmita, Sanjukta, Dipti
