Ana Lisseth

Ana lives in her own house, together with her partner and three daughters, who are ages 9, 5, and 2 years old and are her economic dependents. Ana says that she has relatives living abroad, but she doesn't receive any economic aid from them.

Her business is making tortillas to sell. She started it two years ago; she learned this occupation six years ago and her mother taught her. She works from Monday to Saturday, 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., and she does not have employees. The difficulties with her business are the competition and bad weather. The opportunity is that she is the tortilla provider to tourist ranches in the area.

Ana is asking for a loan to invest it in the strengthening of her business. She will buy wholesale corn, lime, and firewood; with these supplies she will be able to maintain and improve production of tortillas. In this way, she hopes to succeed in meeting the demands of her customers in order to increase sales and earnings, while also reducing the costs of the purchases when making them at this time, since the price of corn the the market is very accessible.

Her aspirations are to buy a mixtamal mill [a mill for grinding prepared corn for tortillas], as much for personal use as to provide a service to her customers, which will allow her to generate additional income, and to have economic stability to offer her daughters the opportunity of studying at the university.

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