A loan helped to buy perfumes, creams and cosmetics.


Alba Elena's story

The Credit Group "Nuevas Amigas" meets up every two weeks in the Jipijapa canton, a canton known as "Coffee Sultan" for its extensive coffee plantations which have an incomparable taste. This is where 54 year old Alba lives. She is married and has three adult children: two of them are still living at home. Her husband works at a private cemetery. Alba is a housewife, who works selling Yanbal and Avon cosmetics (beauty products, cosmetics, perfumes and women accessories) in order to earn her own resources. Her way of sale is door to door and in her house. She loves to sell, and it has been more than 15 years since she has worked in this business which always leaves her with good profits. This loan is to buy perfumes, creams and cosmetics. From the beginning, she has been in this Credit Group, and she likes it because the loans allow her to progress in her business. Her dream is to give her family the best.

Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer Patricia Mueller.


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