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The young Marlene P. is thirty and lives in the village of Obraje Namasigue Choluteca. She earns her living selling cell phones, recharge minutes, prepaid cards and SIM cards.
She is a woman who is devoted to her business. She's single and lives with her mother, who helps out by doing sales from home while Marlene is out vending in areas nearby.
Marlene lives in a very profitable area. A lot of people buy cell phones because it's easy to obtain a phone number quickly and without going through much of a process.
Marlene uses her free time to visit relatives. She plans to use her loan to buy phone cards, SIM cards, prepaid cards, and recharge minutes. She needs the income to cover her personal expenses and to help her mother out with household expenses.
Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer anonymized. View original language description.
