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Beatriz is 32 years old and lives with her spouse. She has 5 children aged 17, 14, 9 and 6 years old and a 1 month old baby. Her business is selling basic need foods in her neighborhood store. She is a good mother, enterprising, friendly, generous comprehensive, responsible and hard-working.
Her business takes place in the Plan 3000 neighborhood which is known for it's great growth in commerce and manufacturing of all kinds. It's inhabitants came from the Ayoreas indigenous people of the area and miners relocated from the west of the country. The climate is tropical with a daily temperature that varies between 21 to 35 degrees Celsius.
Beatriz is dark-skinned, dark-eyed, low in stature, long black hair that she wears tied back and medium in build. She dresses fashionably. Her native language is Guaraní which she speaks with her family and she speaks Spanish because of the general culture and for her business. (She is seated in the center of the photo wearing beige pants and a lily colored sweater).
She lives her life with her partner who works in transportation and with her children. The oldest 4 study at school and the youngest is not yet school age. They live in a rented brick and cement house that has electricity, receives water from a near-by tank but has no sewage. The desire to improve her quality of living led her to form a group of people with businesses like: making wallets, a bookstore, selling vegetables, selling food, selling dried potatoes a cleaning and gardening service in order to improve their businesses.
Her business is selling food and basic use items like bread, rice, sugar, sweets, drinks, soft drinks, sardines, margarine, detergent and others. Her children help her taking care of the store as they know the prices and can handle money. “I started my business out of the need that existed in the neighborhood. My children work with me looking after the customers and I provide pretty much the whole neighborhood with food” she commented. Her advantage is the lack of competition in the area, her disadvantage is the long trips she takes to stock her store.
Her dream is to have a large and well-stocked store. She wants to expand her business through the purchase of food and basic use items wholesale to stock her store and pay for the expenses of her children. This is her 2nd loan with the institution in the 2 years she has had her business. For these reasons Beatriz is requesting a loan to buy food and basic use items to stock her store and pay for the expenses of her children.
In this group: Beatriz, Gladis, Lorena, Rosse Mery, Casta, Dalcy, Rosendo, Claudia Denisse
Translated from Spanish by Kiva volunteer leonardo. View original language description.
