Lucila
A loan of $1,625 helps to purchase a motorcycle that will allow the inclusion of home delivery services from her neighborhood store.
Lucila's story
Lucila is a friendly shopkeeper from Girón, Santander, with 10 years of experience. She owns a neighborhood store where she offers a wide variety of household supplies such as cleaning products, basic food items, kitchen goods, and other everyday essentials, which she sources weekly from the local market and through suppliers. Thanks to this constant assortment, her store is visited daily by more than 454 neighbors from her community who trust in the availability and quality of the products.
Lucila lives with her husband in a house they purchased together. She has three independent adult children with whom she maintains constant communication.
A loan of $5,925,540 COP allows Lucila to purchase a motorcycle that will enable her to offer home delivery services from her neighborhood store. This investment expands the reach of her business, optimizes service times, improves customer service, and strengthens the continuity and growth of her commercial activity.
Motorcycles in Colombia are an essential tool for microentrepreneurs due to the lack of efficient public transportation and the cost of automobiles.