Adonai Group

Forty-two-year-old Claudia is married to a tuk-tuk driver (a three-wheeled vehicle with a bench seat in back and a single seat in the front). The couple has three children ranging in age from fourteen to twenty-two. One of them is in the seventh grade, while the older ones are studying to be high school teachers. Claudia has six years of education and then left school when her father died, and her mother needed help.

Twelve years ago, she opened a business selling second-hand clothing, kitchenware, and personal care products. She sells every day from her home in the department/state of Quiche and online. Claudia has a second business, cooking fried chicken. One of her children helps her attend to customers. Her goal is to open her own storefront. Claudia requests her seventh Kiva loan to buy more second-hand clothing and kitchenware.

Six Maya K’iche women elected Claudia to be Secretary of their Friendship Bridge Trust Bank “Adonai”. These ladies work hard at their convenience stores, sales of personal care products/cosmetics, and traditional textile businesses. They participate in monthly educational trainings, part of the “Microcredit Plus” program of loans, education, and healthcare. Recent topics for the training have been about savings, and the risks of loaning one’s name to another person’s business. Other topics are about health, hygiene, and nutrition. Bi-monthly, the women have access to basic healthcare services.

Thank you, Kiva lenders!

In this group: Jeronima , Carolina Esperanza , Catarina , Marta Rosario , Maria , Maria , Claudia Celestina