Mena Akortey

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Mena Akortey by Christian Rural Aid Network (CRAN) in Ghana. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the 6 months of this loan, Christian Rural Aid Network (CRAN) will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.

Mena lives together with her two daughters, her son and her husband, who is a secretary. All of her children are going to school, whereas she herself didn’t get the chance to go to school.

Mena prepares banku and okro stew, which is a typical Ghanaian dish, out of grinded corn and kassawa. In Elmina, where Mena sells her things, everything depends heavily on the fishing industry. Especially the lane season, when there is quite no fish to catch, leads into financial difficulties. Because of this, she decided to take a loan from the Christian Rural Aid Network (CRAN), to increase her capital and buy more corn and kassawa. Now she is able to buy in larger quantities. Her income increased and she has less financial problems, e.g. in paying the school fees. She was also able to buy some blocks for a small house.

In the future, she wants to complete the house. Her greatest wish is to see her children through school.

Mena thanks every lender very much, for giving her the chance to improve her business, which is helping her to improve her life step by step.

About Christian Rural Aid Network:

Christian Rural Aid Network is a non-governmental, rural development organization established in 1993 with the aim of promoting an improvement in the quality of life and the socio-economic development of the rural poor in Ghana. Based in Cape Coast and operating in three regions and seven different districts, CRAN’s work is based on the values of Christian motivation and obligation towards the development of the individual as a whole, employing and promoting “demand-led” or “self-help” strategies for community development and rural poverty reduction. CRAN’s mission is to “work towards the improvement in the quality of life of the rural poor, the disadvantaged and the marginalized populations and communities in a holistic fashion (physically, socially, economically and spiritually), with emphasis on the right of children to quality formal education, in addition to the economic and social empowerment of women in a professional and qualitative manner”. To learn more about CRAN, click here. To browse through profiles of recent CRAN loan applicants and to make a loan to another worthy CRAN loan client, click here.