Nathali

Nathali is 36 years old and she is married to Edy. The couple have two children, one is 15 years old and the other is 8 years old and they study at a state school, her husband sells fish and seafood. Nathali and her family live in their own house that her husband inherited. They are slowly fixing up the house. The house is in the district of La Esperanza.

Nathali is a very committed, hardworking woman who wants to get ahead with her family. She continues to study cosmetology and has acquired her implements and tools. Her enterprises are (i) selling jewelleries; (ii) selling tamales and she lately set up her (iii) enterprise providing cosmetology services. Nathali has more than 12 years of experience in selling jewelleries. At a very young age, she learned to prepare tamales from her mother. Nathali starts her work very early, she goes out from 6 am to 10 am to sell tamales in the La Hermelinda market. After her tamales are sold, she goes sell her jewellery family, friends and the general public. In the afternoon she dedicates her time to study and practising her cosmetology service.

She has an investment of s/ 5,000.00 soles (£1,093.07) in her jewellery business, she bought jewelleries and boxes. Once a fortnight she sends the boxes of jewelleries to the city of Huamachuco. She currently makes use of social networks such as WhatsApp and Facebook for selling the jewelleries. She offers a variety of jewelleries such as earrings, bracelets, bangles, necklaces etc. On a monthly basis selling jewelleries and tamales her sales are about s/ 4,500 soles (£984.04) generating 50% of the total sales. She does not need to invest too much of money for preparing tamales he does not make much investment. Nathali is grateful for the loans invested in her business with which she has managed to improve her income. Her project is to open a beauty salon in her home, and for now she offers her cosmetology services at home.

Nathali is requesting her third loan to buy steel jewelleries and items for her cosmetology service. She hopes to continue growing her businesses and the income with which she contributes towards her household expenses. She started to make some savings to meet her goals of setting up her beauty salon at home and building some rooms to rent. She is confident that with her efforts she will continue to contribute to improving the quality of life for her family.

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