Catherine
A loan of $625 helps to buy more food to cook.
Catherine's story
Catherine is 46 years old, married, and has three children, two of whom attend school. She lives in the town of Gayaza in the Gayaza region of Uganda. For the past 15 years, she has been working hard to manage her restaurant, which sells cooked food.
To help expand her business, Catherine requested a loan from BRAC Uganda for 2,200,000 Ugandan Shillings, which she will use to buy more food to cook. This loan will help her to generate greater profits and she will be able to educate her children. She hopes that in the future she will be able to buy land.
Catherine is a member of BRAC's microfinance program, which primarily serves small-group members like her who do not have the collateral for commercial loans but have businesses that have grown and qualify for microloans.