New Loan Applicants

After two weeks of interviews with loan applicants, I decided I should talk about a few of the women I interviewed to highlight who they are and what type of business they have or want to start in order to give you a glimpse into their lives.  Today, I'm presenting three of the women I interviewed.

Rosibel bakes sweets and sells them in Granada

Rosibel Estela Urbina

Rosibel lives with her mom, four siblings, daughter, and five nieces and nephews. She makes baked goods and sweets at home and sells them on foot in Granada. Her 14-year old daughter helps her when she is not in school.

If given a loan, Rosibel would buy chocolate, flour, corn, sugar, and other ingredients to increase her inventory. A loan with PHPG would allow her to bake and sell more goods and therefore increase her salary.

Maria Jesus Traña Garcia

Maria recently applied for her first loan with PHPG. For the past 20 years she has sold homemade food by foot in the community she lives and the surrounding neighborhoods. Her speciality is 'arroz con leche' which is a pudding-likedessert made from rice, milk, sugar, and cinnamon sold in a little bag. Maria works an average of 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. She lives with her husband, two sons, and two granddaughters.

With a loan, she hopes to expand her business. She would use the money to buy sugar, milk, rice, and other ingredients needed to prepare the desserts she makes and sells.

Maria is a part of a new loan group that call themselves 'Las Triunfadores.' Other group members sell artisan crafts, clothes, shoes, firewood, Avon products either in the market or from their homes.

Francisca del Carmen Rodriguez Garcia

Francisca and her daughter Carla sell baked goods on foot in Pantanal. She recently applied for her first loan with PHPG. With this loan she plans on buying flour, sugar, and other ingredients to make more desserts and breads for her and her daughter to sell around the community. She needs the loan to invest in her business so that both her and her daughter can work everyday. Collectively, her and her daughter work 7 days a week, but they need a loan in order for them to have enough baked goods for them to both work everyday.

Francisca lives with her husband Pedro, and children Carla and Jose.