Micro Client Case Study

Mary-Lourdes Montrose

business people one day.

Haiti

hope my children will

Ibecome
successful

Hopes for the future: To buy and sell goats

Business: Food sales

Loan Amount: 75

My name Is Mary-Lourdes Montrose. I live in a small village

on the Caribbean coast of Haiti. I am 33 years old and
have two children who are 16 and 17. My cousin told me
about microfinance and I decided to join her Trust Bank.
My micro-loan helped me buy rice, beans and corn in bulk
to sell at market. Once I repaid my first loan of $97 I was

able to take a second slightly larger loan of $125 to buy

more stock and expand my business further.
Ive used some of my profits to buy goats as a future source
of income. Its like having a bank account! Im also saving
to keep my children in school; I hope they will become
successful business people one day.

Rukaya Alhassan

part of the decision

Im
making process in my

family now.

Business: Fish Sales & Soap Production

Ghana

Hopes for the future: To learn more trades

Loan Amount: 100

My name is Rukaya. I am from Sawla and have 3

children. With my micro-loan I bought fish to dry
and sell in the markets. I was also able to join the
soap making co-operative in my village.
Before my micro-loan business was very slow as I could never
buy enough fish. I used to feel very shy and didnt like talking
in my community. Now that I have become successful in

business, I feel bold and confident. Im part of the decision

making process in my family and feel respected.
I joined the soap co-operative for my children; I want to
keep learning new trades so that I can help them more.
I want them to be better than me and hope Ill be able to
support them all the way to university.

WildHearts fund microfinance across the developing world. We fund

businesses. They become active citizens, create jobs, educate themselves,

banking for the unbanked, the excluded and the down trodden enabling

nourish their children and send them to school. At 99% repayment rates,

them to work their own way out of poverty with dignity and self respect. How

loans are recycled regularly enabling WildHearts to multiply the impact of its

does this work? Without access to credit a business cannot grow. Yet billions

initial investment exponentially.

of the worlds poorest people are excluded from conventional banking.

WildHearts fund microfinance in Haiti with Finca International.

We address this by funding micro-loans, enabling the poor to set up small

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