1. Yajaira Riofrio runs a market stall selling fruit. She is 29 years old and lives on the outskirts of Loja in southern Ecuador. Her husband works as a builder and they have two children. Her business has suffered from the effects of the pandemic and she needed some more working capital to assist in its recovery.
2. Jean Claude Munyaneza is a potato farmer and a member of a voluntary savings and loan group in Rwanda. Lending capital to the group enables it to help members like Jean Claude to improve their businesses and so better provide for their families. Jean Claude lives with his wife and three children.
3. Elisee Nzabananabandi is also Rwandan. He has a wholesale grocery business in Ngororero City. He is 38 and married with one child. He already employs 4 people and sees an opportunity now for further epansion and the loan will help provide the capital he needs to do so.
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