A loan helped a member to buy quality seeds and agricultural inputs and to carry out her agricultural activity on time.


Rocky's Group's story

The group was created in 2008, when the banc villageois was set up: it consists of women from the same area who have close relations.
Their main activity is agriculture.

Madam Rocky (on the right in the photo, with her hand raised) is the group representative: she is 25 and married with three children (two boys and one daughter).

With her loan she intends to buy quality seeds and agricultural inputs and to carry out her agricultural activity on time.

The profits generated by her business allow her to pay the daily expenses of her family.

In this group: Rocky, Aissatou, Maguette, Ndeye , Seynabou, Sadio, Kodou, Aissatou , Salla, Fatou, Rocky, Seynabou, Ndeye, Maguatte, Awa, Boye, Dieye, Seynabou, Marame, Fatou

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Translated from French by Kiva volunteer Guido Fregonara.


This loan is special because:

It empowers women in rural and suburban Senegal.



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