A loan helped a member to buy seeds and fertilizer.


05-Fama Group's story

This group was created in June 2017 by women who live in the same local community and maintain excellent relations of friendship and solidarity. Their main business is agriculture.
Fama the featured borrower, 61, is married and mother of 6 children including 3 boys.
She is alone in the photo because of covid 19.
Madame Fama plans to grow peanuts during the rainy season. With this new credit, she will buy seeds and fertilizer that she will use for cultivation. After the harvest, she will resell her production on the local market at a good price, hoping to obtain better income.
The profits generated will be used to support the family.

In this group: Fama, Sokhna Khady, Aida, Codou, Bintou, Adame, Ndeye Fatou, Amy, Diarra

Translated from French by Kiva volunteer anonymized.


This loan is special because:

It empowers women working in agriculture in rural Senegal.



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