A loan helped to purchase nets, bait, line, and other fishing materials.


Mercedes Virginia's story

Mercedes Virginia and her family live in Crucita, a place of lovely beaches, a varied cuisine, and friendly and hardworking people who primarily work at the fishing tasks.

She is a determined person who seeks the way to earn her resources and, with them, to help her family get ahead. She has a boat in which she sends out acquaintances from the place, whom she pays for their labor. They go out to sea to do the fishing tasks every day and sometimes even for several days. Once they return to the beach, she receives what they have managed to get and then sells to customers who come to purchase to bring them to other cities.

So, she manages to continue on and this is thanks to the help of the loans. This loan is to purchase nets, bait, line, and other fishing materials.

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Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer Wendy H.


This loan is special because:

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


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