Ritah

Ritah is 32 years old and lives in the town of Kawempe in the Central region of Uganda. She is married and has 2 children with 1 of them currently in school. For the past 3 years, Ritah has been working hard to manage her boutique which sells all kinds of adult clothes, like dresses, tops and bottoms.

To help expand her business, Ritah has requested a loan of 3,000,000 Ugandan Shillings from BRAC Uganda. The loan will be used to purchase more fashionable dresses, tops and bottoms for resale, and it will help Ritah to generate greater profits and manage to provide some basic needs and food for her family. Ritah hopes that in the future she will be able to become a powerful business woman and own a big shop in town.

She is a member of BRAC's microfinance program which primarily serves small-group members like her, who do not have collateral for commercial loans but have businesses that have grown and qualify for microloans.