A loan helped to buy unrefined cane sugar, sugar candy, and other traditional sweets.


Juan Carlos's story

Juan Carlos, 46, is married and has two children, ages 23 and 11. His wife is a businesswoman, and they live in Portoviejo, a place of hard-working people who does the necessary to get their families ahead.

Juan Carlos is a very hard-working man who what is possible to earn an honest living and get his family ahead. He works selling unrefined cane sugar, sugar sweets, and other traditional sweets. He travels to the fields where these products are produced and then takes them to sell in the city and other small towns where people always buy all the delicious things he sells, thus making a living. This is thanks to the help of the loans.

Juan Carlos is requesting this loan to buy unrefined cane sugar, sugar candy, and other traditional sweets.

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Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer Soledad Merlo.


This loan is special because:

It is accompanied by useful, real-life business training.


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