Sisters In Business Group

Status: Paying Back

$1,000
Loan Request
Pre-Disbursed : Mar 17, 2009
Listed: Mar 21, 2009
Funded: Mar 22, 2009
90% repaid

About the Country

Country:Sierra Leone
Avg Annual Income:$903
Currency:Sierra Leone Leones (SLL)
Exchange Rate:3,045.0000 SLL = 1 USD


In this Group:
David Kamara, Marieno Kargbo, Hawa Kamara

About the Loan

Location: Makeni, Sierra Leone   Repayment Term: 12 months
(more info)
Activity: Food Market   Repayment Schedule: Monthly
Loan Use: To buy four bags of pepper and three barters of palm-oil   Currency Exchange Loss: Covered
      Default Protection: Not Covered
David (left) is the leader of this group. He is fifty years of age. He was born in Yele Sanda village, four miles from Makeni City in northern Sierra Leone. He is married to a businesswoman and the two have eight children. Four of his children are in secondary school, three in primary school and one is still sucking. He has been a businessman for over twenty years now.



David sells market food. He sells pepper and palm-oil (the most popular cooking oil). With this new loan, he will expand on his business. He will be able to buy about four bags of pepper and three barters (five gallons make a barter) of palm-oil. He buys his goods from either the village called Kalamgba or Tambiama. A bag of pepper costs him Le 200,000 and a barter of palm-oil costd him Le 40,000 in either of these villages.



So far, David faces no serious challenge in his business that is worth noting. Business is going fine and smooth. He enjoys what he does for a living. To David and his colleagues in the group, an increase in profit means making their lives better. They will be able to take good care of their children, specifically with their educational and nutritional needs, and save some money for emergencies.




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Loan has been disbursed
 
Entrepreneur: Sisters In Business Group
Location: Makeni, Sierra Leone

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Sisters in Business Group, consisting of David Kamara, Marieno Kargbo, Hawa Kamara by Salone Microfinance Trust (SMT), a partner of Christian Children's Fund in Sierra Leone. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the 10 months of this loan, Salone Microfinance Trust (SMT), a partner of Christian Children's Fund will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.


Posted by from Makeni, Sierra Leone
Mar 23, 2009
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Kiva Help Repayment Schedule for Sisters In Business Group

  Expected Repayments Actual Repayments Comments
June 2009 $100.00 $100.00 Repayment Received
July 2009 $100.00 $25.00 Repayment Received
August 2009 $100.00 $125.00 Repayment Received
September 2009 $100.00 $150.00 Repayment Received
October 2009 $100.00 $0.00 Repayment Received
November 2009 $100.00 $200.00 Repayment Received
December 2009 $100.00 $100.00 Repayment Received
January 2010 $100.00 $100.00 Repayment Received
February 2010 $100.00 $100.00 Repayment Received
March 2010 $100.00 Available Mar 1