A loan helped a member to buy pig feed for increased production, hence increased income to pay school fees for her children.


Sakawa Community Based Organization.f.f.s. Group's story

The lady raising her hand in the photo is Rosemary. She is forty nine years old, married and a mother of seven children. She is a member of Sakawa Community Based Organization.F.F.S group which joined Hand in Hand Eastern Africa in the year 2015 and has benefited from enterprise development and financial management training.

She is a mixed farmer who does maize and bean farming as well as pig rearing. She is borrowing a Kiva loan to buy pig feed. She hopes this will increase her pig production, hence increasing her income. She will therefore use the anticipated income to pay school fees for her children.

She is grateful to Kiva and their lenders for the financial support and promises to repay promptly.

In this group: Rosemary, Kamande, Geoffrey, Peter


This loan is special because:

It provides startup loans to risky businesses and underserved people.



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