Constancia Daniel Escova

Constância Catela Escova was born in Maganja da Costa in the northern province of Mozambique. She is 34 years old, married and the mother of three children aged 1, 7 and 12 years. The two oldest children go to school. She is in her third year at the faculty of pedagogical sciences at the Pedagogical University.

She lives in her own house with her family and a niece. Her husband works for himself as a locksmith.

When she was still young, she left Zambezia for Maputo with her sister for the purposes of continuing with her studies. Since then she has not returned again to Zambezia, as she later moved into her residence in the district of Boane, where she still lives today.

She has been a teacher for six years and works five hours a day, having graduated from IMAP-Matola (Institute of Elementary Education of Matola) seven years ago. Currently, she receives a monthly salary of 5,676 MT, and saves some every month in the commercial bank BIM.

She has already had a loan from PROCREDIT (a Mozambican credit institution) in the amount of 50,000 MT, which was intended for the acquisition of a means of transportation, but she decided not to continue with it afterwards for various reasons.

She got to know about Hluvuku through a friend, and this is her first loan in the amount of 15,000 MT, with which she plans to buy bricks, stones, sand and other items.

She promises to repay the loan faithfully, since she plans to continue to ask for more money in order to be able to finish construction and then get furniture.

Translated from Portuguese by Heidi Petersen, Kiva Volunteer

Constância Catela Escova nasceu em Maganja da costa, na província nortenha de Moçambique, tem 34 anos de idade, casada e mãe de 3 filhos de 01,07 e 12 anos de idade, os dois mais velhos vão à escola. Esta a fazer o 3º ano de faculdade de ciências pedagógicas na Universidade Pedagógica.
Vive na casa própria com a família e uma sobrinha, o seu marido trabalha como serralheiro a conta própria.

Saiu de Zambézia para Maputo ainda jovem com sua irmã, a fim de continuar com os estudos, desde então não voltou mais para Zambézia tendo mais tarde instalado a sua residência no distrito de boane, onde vive ate hoje.

É professora efectiva há 06 anos e faz 05 horas diárias, formou-se no IMAP-Matola (Instituto do Magistério Primário da Matola) há 07 anos, actualmente aufere um salário mensal de 5.676,00MT, poupa algum mensalmente no Banco comercial (BIM).

Já fez empréstimo na PROCREDIT (Uma instituição Moçambicana de credito), no valor de 50.000.00MT destinados à aquisição de um meio de transporte depois decidiu não continuar por vários motivos.
Conheceu a Hluvuku através de uma amiga e este é o seu primeiro empréstimo no valor de 15.000.00MT com o qual pretende comprar blocos, pedras, areia e outros.

Compromete-se a pagar bem o empréstimo, pois pretende continuar a pedir mais para poder concluir a obra e depois mobilar.




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