Togo
Loan description:
Charity is 34 years old and a married mother with three children. The eldest is 8 and the youngest is 8 months. The two eldest children attend the primary school in the neighbourhood of Avédji in Lomé where the family also lives. Charity’s husband is a commercial agent at the main mobile telephone business in the country. For more than 4 years, Charity has specialised in the production and sale of local soaps. She has a production workshop at her house, where she assembles the different primary materials (such as cocoa butter and soya milk) for the manufacture of her soap. Her soaps are perfumed and foam well which gives her an advantage over other competitors in the market. Retailers come to purchase soaps from her on a wholesale basis so that they can resell them on. She approached the microfinance organisation WAGES to request her first loan for 1,000,000 West African francs so that she can expand her stocks of cocoa butter, soya milk and packaging. She sources her stocks from Lomé. She plans to repay her loan within 15 months. Before she ran this business, Charity used to be a retailer in fabrics. Charity hopes that this financial support will help her to modernise her trade and move her family into the home that they need.
Original loan request in French:
Charity a 34 ans, mariée et mère de 03 enfants. L’ainé a 8 ans et le dernier a à peine 8 mois. Les 2 premiers fréquentent l’école primaire du quartier Avédji à Lomé où la famille est domiciliée. Le mari de Charity est un agent commercial au sein de la principale société de téléphonie mobile du pays.
Depuis plus de 4 ans, elle s’est spécialisée dans la fabrication et la commercialisation de savon local.
Elle dispose d’un atelier de production à son domicile où elle assemble les différentes matières premières pour la fabrication de son savon. Les principales matières utilisées sont le beurre de cacao et le lait de soja. Ses savons sont bien parfumés et moussent bien ce qui lui garantit une belle part sur le marché de la concurrence. Les revendeuses viennent acheter les savons en gros pour la revente.
Elle s’adresse à WAGES pour solliciter un premier crédit de 1000 000FCFA destiné à l’achat de beurre de cacao, de lait de soja et des emballages pour les besoins de son activité. Elle s’approvisionne à Lomé. Elle compte rembourser intégralement son crédit en 15 mois.
Avant de démarrer cette activité, Charity était revendeuse de tissus.
Charity compte sur notre appui financier pour moderniser sa mini industrie et mettre ainsi sa famille à l’abri du besoin.
Loan added: 27 March 2012
Charity's loan repayment schedule
| Date | Expected repayments | Actual repayments |
|---|---|---|
| £129.87 | ||
| £86.58 | ||
| £86.58 | ||
| £86.58 | ||
| £86.58 | ||
| £86.58 | ||
| £86.58 |
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