Kiva Loans for Asasah, a partner of Save the Children

Muniran's Group : Pakistan

Wed, 02 May 2012 16:30:02 PDT

$750 of $1,225 raised.

Started raising funds on May 2, 2012

Muniran is married and a mother of two sons. Both of them operate a tailoring shop and offer sewing services to their clients. Muniran is a housewife, and remains at home performing her household duties. She is still very active at the age of 57 and performs her household duties very well. She has applied for a loan from Kiva partner, Asasah, to expand her eldest son’s tailoring business. With the loan, he will buy a new sewing machine and thread that will allow him to fulfill larger orders on time. This will increase his profits. He is very skilful in his work. Muniran is very hopeful that the loan will bring positive financial changes to his business.

Shabnam's Group : Pakistan

Thu, 24 May 2012 17:50:05 PDT

$1,575 of $2,350 raised.

Started raising funds on May 24, 2012

Shabnam is 34 years old and studied up to intermediate school. She is very supportive in nature and sews clothes to financially support her husband who has a motorcycle showroom. He makes deals of motorbikes from his show room. He started this business two years ago. Shabnam has applied for a loan from Kiva partner, Asasah, for establishing her husband’s business. With the loan investment, he will buy a motorbike that will allow him to earn more profts by selling. Shabaum is confident that his business will get more established after investing the loan into it.

Muniran's Group : Pakistan

Thu, 24 May 2012 19:30:03 PDT

$1,075 of $1,700 raised.

Started raising funds on May 24, 2012

Muniran has applied for a loan from Kiva partner Asasah for her husband’s construction supplies business. With the loan investment, he will buy cement, bricks, sand, etc. in larger quantities that will help him fulfill larger orders on time and increase his profits. He is a very professional businessman and his clients are very happy with his good quality products. Muniran is a housewife as well as a businesswoman. Her work is home-based. She sews clothes for her neighboring clients and supplements the income of her family. Besides her work, she also spends the required time on her household work. She makes the utmost effort to provide comfort to her family by fulfilling their needs. She is confident about her family’s better future as a result of the loan investment in her husband’s business.

Azra's Group : Pakistan

Fri, 25 May 2012 17:10:02 PDT

$300 of $825 raised.

Started raising funds on May 25, 2012

Azra has applied for a loan from Kiva partner Asasah for her husband’s grocery store business. With the loan investment, he will put more grocery stock at his shop to be able to fulfill his clients' needs and increase his sales and profits. He is very professional in his dealings and his clients come to his shop regularly because they can find their desired product easily in his shop. Azra is a housewife. She remains at home and does her household responsibilities. She has given birth to 5 children. One of them studies while the remaining children stay at home. Azra is a very supportive lady and is very confident that the loan investment will be productive for her husband and he will be able to successfully improve his business.

Bashiran Bibi's Group : Pakistan

Tue, 08 May 2012 13:20:04 PDT

$975 of $1,900 raised.

Started raising funds on May 8, 2012

Bashiran bibi is 58 years old and married. In this relationship, she has five children: three daughters and two sons. Her husband is a painter by profession. He paints walls and buildings on contract. He gets the money when he finishes the orders. His work is not permanent. Sometimes he gets work and sometimes not. To support her husband financially, Bashiran operates a boutique business. She prepares dresses to display to her clients for selling. She has been operating her business for over five years. Bashiran has requested a loan from Kiva partner Asasah for her boutique business. She will invest the loan in buying of clothes, beads, laces and threads in larger quantity to prepare better quality and better-looking dresses to sell.. She is confident about the financial success of her business after this loan investment.

Hamidan Bibi's Group : Pakistan

Tue, 01 May 2012 16:20:04 PDT

$525 of $1,325 raised.

Started raising funds on May 1, 2012

Hamidan bibi is 48 years old married woman and by this relationship she has five children: three sons and two daughters. Her husband and elder son are loaders from profession. They provide their services of loading to their customers. They have their donkey carts on which they load the goods and deliver to their designated places. Her second son does private job in a restaurant on monthly wage while her youngest son is free and don’t do anything. Her elder daughter reads in 10th standard and her younger daughter is also free and don’t do anything. Hamidan is a housewife, spends her time at home and manages the household works. She makes the utmost efforts to provide comfort to her family by fulfilling their needs. She has requested for a loan from Kiva partner Asasah for her husband’s loading business. With the loan, he will buy a new donkey cart because his current cart has become rough and doesn’t allow him to load heavy items on it which resulted affecting his work. She is hopeful that the new donkey cart will allow her husband providing best services to his customers and increasing his profits.

Kaneez Fatima's Group : Pakistan

Tue, 01 May 2012 21:10:03 PDT

$750 of $1,150 raised.

Started raising funds on May 1, 2012

Kaneez Fatima, aged 47-years, married with three children. Kaneez is a very caring housewife. She stays at home and manages the household works. She takes care of her family and tries her best to provide comfort to her family by fulfilling their needs. Her husband runs a canteen where he sells food items such as biscuits, chips, cold drinks, etc. to his customers and earns on profits. He makes good sales, which allows him to put three meals on the table for the family. Kaneez has applied for a loan from Kiva partner Asasah for her husband’s business. He will invest the loan in buying more edible items, in larger quantities, to put in his canteen for reselling. Kaneez is very sure that her husband’s income will be increased after the loan investment.

Shamim Akhtar's Group : Pakistan

Wed, 02 May 2012 10:40:03 PDT

$625 of $2,250 raised.

Started raising funds on May 2, 2012

Shamim Akhtar, aged 39-years, married with six children: four sons and two daughters. Shamim and her elder daughter are involved in the sewing business. Shamim gets orders from her community clients and she and her daughter both finish the orders on time. Shamim's remaining children are enrolled in a school and getting an education. Shamim’s husband operates a spare parts shop where he sells spare parts of motor vehicles to the customers, generating an income for the family. Shamim has requested a loan from Kiva partner Asasah for her husband’s business. He will invest the loan in buying spare parts in larger quantities to put in his shop. Shamim is very hopeful that the loan investment will bring better profits to her husband’s business and her family will be able to enjoy better living standards as a result.

Nasira's Group : Pakistan

Wed, 02 May 2012 16:20:03 PDT

$400 of $1,600 raised.

Started raising funds on May 2, 2012

Nasira has applied for a loan from Kiva partner, Asasah, to expand her husband’s clothing business. With the loan he will buy a better variety of clothes in bulk that will allow him to offer more choice to his clients. This will increase his sales and income. Nasira is an efficient lady and performs her household duties very well. She also helps her husband financially by sewing clothes. She works for ladies in the community and sews beautiful clothes for them at reasonable rates. She is a positive lady and is confident that her husband will be more successful in his business after investing this loan.

Nusrat's Group : Pakistan

Wed, 02 May 2012 16:20:03 PDT

$500 of $2,325 raised.

Started raising funds on May 2, 2012

Nusrat is married and has four sons and a daughter. Her two eldest sons work, while her other children are continuing their education. Nusrat herself is a beautician by profession and offers beauty-related services to her clients. She is very skillful and operates her business from home. She has applied for a loan from Kiva partner, Asasah, for further expansion of her husband’s agricultural products selling business. With the loan investment, he will buy wheat, rice, and other products for selling for profit. He is very experienced in his business and has been operating it for the past many years. Nusrat is hopeful that the loan investment will help him to make his business more profitable.

Shameem's Group : Pakistan

Wed, 02 May 2012 16:30:02 PDT

$675 of $1,775 raised.

Started raising funds on May 2, 2012

Shameem has applied for a loan from Kiva partner, Asasah, for her husband’s fruit sales business. With the loan investment, he will buy fresh seasonal fruits for selling to his clients. He is a very hardworking and experienced person in his business. He makes good sales from his business and his clients are very satisfied with his quality fruits and they prefer buying from him. Shameem herself is a housewife who remains at home and does her household responsibilities. She has given birth to 5 children. All of them are enrolled in school and getting their education. Shameem is confident about her family’s better future as a result of her husband’s business improvement.

Razia's Group : Pakistan

Wed, 02 May 2012 16:40:03 PDT

$700 of $1,400 raised.

Started raising funds on May 2, 2012

Razia is a very efficient and hardworking lady. She remains at her home and does her household responsibilities. She tries her best to provide comfort to her family with her efforts. Her family regards her efforts and respects her a lot. Her husband is a butcher by profession and operates a meat shop in the community where he specifically deals with chickens. He handles a good clientele base who come to him for purchasing chicken meat. He sells fresh quality meat to the customers with perfect measurement. Razia has applied for a loan from Kiva partner, Asasah, for the further expansion her husband’s business. With the loan, he will buy chickens in larger quantity which will allow him to fulfill the client orders on time, particularly for weddings and other parties. He is very experienced in his work and has been operating it for the past many years. Razia is hopeful that the loan will be a productive one for him.

Azra's Group : Pakistan

Wed, 02 May 2012 16:50:04 PDT

$875 of $1,900 raised.

Started raising funds on May 2, 2012

Azra has applied for a loan from Kiva partner, Asasah, for her husband’s shoe making business. With the loan, he will buy leather, shoe laces and nails for making a larger quantity of shoes. This will help him to fulfill larger orders on time, and it will improve his income. Azra is educated through the twelfth standard. She has a job in an insurance company. She has great marketing skills and works very hard to financially support her family. She has given birth to 5 children. All but her youngest son are attending the local school. She is very confident about the future business success of her husband as a result of a loan investment.

Perveen's Group : Pakistan

Thu, 03 May 2012 20:10:03 PDT

$500 of $1,825 raised.

Started raising funds on May 3, 2012

Perveen has applied for a loan from Kiva partner Asasah for her husband’s restaurant business. In the restaurant, he sells Punjabi food items called nan chanay (made with chick-peas and served with bread) and daal chawal (made with lentils and served with rice and pickle). These two dishes are very famous among people and they love to eat these dishes. With the loan investment, he will buy ingredients such as cooking oil, spices, lentils, chick-peas, rice, etc., in larger quantities to make better quality food and larger quantities of food for his clients. This will help him improve his income. Perveen is confident that her husband will be able to earn more profits from his business after investing the loan. She is also a working lady and sells vegetables from her home. She charges very reasonable rates and offers fresh seasonal vegetables to her customers. She has given birth to a daughter who is 13 years old and helps her with her household responsibilities. Perveen is confident about her family’s bright future as a result of loan investment into her husband’s business. Note: One of the members has a sewing business; that is why she is showing it in the picture.