Tusole

Loan description:

12 women of the Tusole group run small scale businesses such as selling groceries, dried fish, vegetable, second hand clothes and chickens. They started their businesses to generally help their families buy clothes, food, uniforms, farming equipment’s, pay school fees and medical bills. The group is requesting its eighth loan from the organization to boost their businesses by ordering more products for their stalls. To enable effectively run their businesses MLF has trained them in business management skills. Emily Nkamba is a member of Tusole. She is 44 years old, married with three children who are school going. Her husband is a farmer. She started her business to buy farming inputs and pay temporal workers at their farm during the farming season. She runs a market stall selling cosmetics like face powder, perfumes and assorted body lotions in a local market for twelve years now. She is requesting for this loan to order more products to meet the demands of her customers. She runs her business with the help of her relatives and children during the school holidays. She hopes to open a new vegetable stall at another nearby local market and employ someone to help her run the other stall as a way of diversifying her business. As a woman she is self-reliant and able to stand on her own because of the business she is doing.