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I now want to reach 100 loans by 2010. I love Kiva. I love reading the stories of people who have dreams and are working towards accomplishing those dreams. It reminds me that there are so many opportunities to do good in this world.

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of Siem Reap, Cambodia. For a fish-market stall.

for her restaurant

for farming

Name: Rosalina Dupitas
Location: Nagassican Santiago City, Philippines
Activity: Food Production/Sales

“Achieving success in life needs sacrifice and humility,” says Rosalina. She is 57 years old who is married to Quirino Antonio. They are blessed with five children but all of them are married already.

Rosalina is selling native cakes in their village. She said that she is able to earn PHP3,000 a month. Improving her business is what she dreams so that she could earn bigger capital for her family needs. She would like to ask financial support to the KIVA lenders amounting PHP5,000. This amount she request will serve a big help most especially to make her business a productive one.She hopes that she could obtain the loan amount she is requesting.

of Nigeria for her clothing, sarong, shoe and bag business.

Dugarsuren Naranbaatar is 26 years old and lives with his parents in Uvurkhangai province in central Mongolia. He currently operates a wooden products and furniture production business in his town. He produces materials and wooden furniture used in gers, traditional Mongolian nomadic tent homes. He designs and produces the furniture himself and has one assistant that helps him. He owns a shipping container at the local market where his mother works to sell his products. Naranbaatar started his ger material and furniture production business in 2004 with the support of his father. His father, an experienced craftsman, taught him all the techniques and skills needed to make wooden products. However, after suffering a stroke, his father had to give up the trade and currently doesn’t work. When he started, they produced furniture based on customer orders, but now take orders and produce furniture for sale at the shipping container. For the future, Naranbaatar hopes to continue to grow and expand his business. He says, “With the growth of my business, I hope to take care of my parents as long as I can.”. He is requesting a 3,000,000 tugrug (~2100 USD) loan to purchase wood and supplies for his ger and wooden furniture business.

All info courtesy of kiva.org
http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=138671

But not finished.
Two new loans, to women from Peru – a young one, an elderly one. Best of luck to them and their families.
(I’m quite ashamed it took me so long to make loan n°2 and 3.)

Raquel Mutisse of Mozambique for catering.

Olorunto Busayo of Nigeria for her newstand and Francis Thompson Ileka of Kenya for his metal fabrication business.