TEEXAS

Name:Lucilla Portillo Duarte
Amount Repaid: $16.75 of $25.00 Loan
Location:San Lorenzo, Paraguay

Lucilla Portilla Duarte owns a restaurant and catering business that specializes in cooking hamburgers, steaks, and other dinner foods for birthday parties and other events. She has owned and operated her business for 14 years and has successfully used previous loans to remodel her kitchen facilities. Mrs. Duarte hopes to use future loans to buy additional food products and improve her ability to handle larger orders so that she may expand her customer base.

Name:Timotea Quispe De Bautista's Group
Amount Repaid: $12.51 of $25.00 Loan
Location:Ayacucho, Peru

Timotea is craftswoman and along with her family make this beautiful work in stone, pieces that are carved in white stone of the zone (Huamanga). Ortencia is 53 years old and has 9 children and now she has a small grocery store. Additionally, on Sundays she makes typical Peruvian food to sell in local fairs.Esther is 62 years old and has 10 children. She sells vegetables, spices and fruits in the Putaja fair. They need a $1075 loan, which will be invested in the purchase of stone, fava beans, corn, rice, sugar, pasta, milk, banana, mango, grape, apple, onion, cilantro, carrot and tomato. Timotea, Ortencia and Esther's dreams are to expand their businesses, export their products, build their house and send their kids to college.

Name:Sumangul Davlatova
Amount Repaid: $8.35 of $25.00 Loan
Location:Vahdat, Tajikistan

Sumangul Davlatova is 43 years old. She is divorced and has 3 children. Sumangul is selling children's winter clothes at one of the markets in the city of Vahdat. She wants to use the loan to increase the assortment of her merchandise because during winter time the demand for her goods is increasing. The loan will also give residents the opportunity to shop for the necessary children's clothing at their local market.

Name:Amal Nahle
Amount Repaid: $0 of $50.00 Loan
Location:Borj Barajneh, Lebanon

Amal is a 39-year-old woman. She lives and works in Borj El Barajneh. Amal owns a clothing store. This is her second loan from Al Majmoua. Amal is planning to buy new merchandise for her business.

Name: Marina Pacheva
Amount Repaid: $20 of $20.00 Loan
Location: Melitopol, Ukraine

Marina has a business selling leather purses from a little market stall at the Rushski Market in Melitopol, Ukraine. An experienced entrepreneur, she has been developing her business over the past seven years. Loans Marina has received from Nadiya Ukraine have been instrumental in helping her through the years.

Name: Teina Mataafa
Amount Repaid: $13.96 of $25.00 Loan
Location: Sauano Fagaloa, Samoa

Teina Mataafa is a mother of five children and lives in the Samoan countryside far from town. She has a talent for weaving and weaves traditional Samoan mats. She weaves the fine mats that are used in special Samoan celebrations, such as weddings. Traditionally in Samoa, all women knew how to weave, but now Teina is a rarity. There is a strong market for her mats, and although it is very time-consuming and difficult work, she is able to sell these fine mats for good prices. Teina invests the time and diligence in her weaving in order to preserve the traditional Samoan craft and to provide for her large family. She plans to use the loan to buy weaving materials.

So far we have only been able to assist two entrepreneurs, one in Cambodia and one in Honduras. To the right you'll see a map with their locations marked. Our goal with TEEXAS is to rapidly expand our list of entrepreneurs and continue to mark the map with new countries representing new women that we've empowered.

Name: Domitila Ardon
Amount Repaid: $25.00 of $25.00 Loan
Location: Comayaguela, Honduras

"I have been making and seling tortillas for three years. Prior to this I worked for a houese cleaning company. I became ill and was asked to leave the house cleaning company at which point I began my tortilla selling business that has allowed me to support my family and take care of my health."

Domitila's loan has been used to purchase corn, lime and firewood, in order to help expand her tortilla business. So far her progress has been excellent and she's made quick and consistent payments in a time frame smaller than the average loan.

Name: Vat Chan
Amount Repaid: $50 of $50.00 Loan
Location: Dangkar District, Cambodia
Chan Vat is a very busy single mother. She runs a business selling electricity. She generally earns an average $124.50 net income per month. She also operates a Karaoke business out of her home, which her daughter runs for her. They typically earn about $3.75 a day from this.

Chan Vat is requesting a loan in order to purchase a motor bike for her son to drive to work. Her son works in a factory, and earns a salary of $70 per month. The motor bike will allow her son to get to and from work more economically and thus allow them to save more from his salary.

In the future Chan Vat would like to expand her Karaoke business, to include selling food and drinks to the customers. She is very excited about being able to provide greater opportunities to her children in the future, and believes this loan will help them improve their lives.

Name:Abiodun Cecila
Amount Repaid: $25 of $25.00 Loan
Location:Benin City, Nigeria

A woman of age 58, Abiodun is married and has six children. She lives in the semi-urban area of Benin City, Edo State of Nigeria, where she started her own retail business in the year 1996. She specializes in the sale of drinks. According to Abiodun, a loan of US$625 would greatly help her in expanding the business.