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Twenty-eight-year-old Maria graduated from high school with a diploma in bookkeeping. She is married to a bricklayer, and they have a one-year-old daughter. Seven years ago, she and her mother started raising chickens and pigs. Two years later, she started cooking tacos on a food cart. She also makes tortillas from her home, three times daily, to coincide with mealtimes. Her mother helps her with the business.
Maria's goals are to be able to work as a bookkeeper in a business, enlarge her businesses, and move her family ahead into a more successful future. She requests her second Kiva loan to buy cement, pea gravel, and sand so that she can construct a floor in her pens. She thinks it would be more hygienic for them to stand on a floor rather than on dirt.
Maria joined six Maya K’iche women and formed the Friendship Bridge Trust Bank “Mujeres de Campamento”. They live in a rural area in the department/state of Quiché. They raise chickens and pigs, have convenience stores, sell merchandise in the local market, cellular products and prepared foods, and have traditional textile businesses. They meet monthly and participate in the “Microcredit Plus” program of loans, monthly educational training, and bi-monthly healthcare services (exams, consults, family planning). Recent topics for the training have been about family gardening and the importance of savings rather than buying.
Thank you, Kiva lenders, for lending a helping hand to Maria and her friends!
In this group: Magdalena , Norma Alicia , Concepcion, Ana , Maria Del Rosario , Feliciana , Rigoberta
