Mabinty F (1st on left) is the featured borrower of Mabinty's Best Farmers. She is a master farmer in Rogbonkoh Mathaka Village and has a family of four. Mabinty is passionate about farming and volunteers to teach young girls in the village about agriculture.
Mabinty is a seasoned farmer whose rice farming business was hard hit during Sierra Leone's 2014-2017 Ebola crisis. She has since recovered her business but very slowly due to predatory lending and a lack of access to financing.
Mabinty has organized a large group of women who, like her, are currently trapped in a cycle of subsistence and take extremely high-interest loans for poor-quality inputs during planting time. A no-interest Kiva loan will enable this group of determined women to throw off the shackles of predatory lending and expand and prosper. Additionally, the global COVID-19 pandemic is causing food shortages in some areas of Sierra Leone as imported rice becomes more scarce. A Kiva loan will empower these women to increase their local rice production and enhance food access in Sierra Leone at a time when it is badly needed.
In this group: Mabinty, Jariatu, Kadiatu, Mabinty, Adama, Haja, Kadiatu, Mamusu, Mbalu, Mbalu