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Juana is 70 years old and separated. Her family is integrated with seven family members, and she has nine children.
Juana is illiterate. As a child, she could not study because her parents did not give her the opportunity. Her brothers also could not study because they had to work in the fields. Juana had to work to help her parents with the family's expenses.
When Juana got married, she continued having problems sustaining her family. Her husband did not contribute at all. She tried to give her children the opportunity to study, but she could not. Her children had to work to help with the family's expenses.
One of her neighbors told Juana about the credit opportunities for women that Chajulense Association of Women United for Life offer. This year she will get her fourth loan.
This year, as she has done previously, she will invest her loan in buying threads for producing textiles and buying and fattening poultry and pigs.
Juana is the leader of group Las Soñadoras 2. The group consists of 6 women, all of Ixil Maya ethnicity. All the members of the group will invest their loan in textiles. On average, each member of the group has 4 children, the average age of the members of the group is 49, 83% are illiterate, and 17% studied until third grade.
In this group: Cecilia , Elena, Eva Manuela, Jacinta, Juana, Juana
