Featured Entrepreneur: Phalla
Meet Phalla
Phalla is a 37-year-old wife and mother of three who resides in the Takeo Province of Cambodia. For over 10 years she has grown rice and sold it as a means of caring for her family. In hopes of expanding her income, she will use her loan to purchase a generator so she can run an electricity providing business for her village.
In addition to looking forward to expanding her business, Phalla would like to help her children receive bachelor’s degrees, and building a concrete house to provide better living conditions for her family.
Meet Adhiambo
Adhiambo is a 58-year-old married woman from western Kenya. She has nine children and six grandchildren and uses her 13 years of food selling experience to make a monthly profit to provide for her family.
Adhiambo specializes in selling yams, and her $225 USD microloan, partially funded by joinFITE codes, will help her purchase more food stock to sell. This gives her the financial ability to pay school fees for her grandchildren, and by keeping them in school, she is preventing them from becoming part of the orphan epidemic. Adhiambo also dreams of using her earnings to build a good home for her family.
Featured Entrepreneur: Efia
Efia works at a spa in New York City, where she puts her fifteen years of experience in the skin care industry to work! In addition to working as a skin therapist and make-up artist, she created the Smucci Beauty Consulting Company in 2003. She uses this business as a springboard that lets her indulge her “color-fanatic” side by developing an eye-catching lip gloss collection.
Efia is a single, hard-working mother who experienced the traumatic loss of her brother during the September 11 attacks. Efia turned this tragedy into triumph, using it as inspiration to seize her dream and start her business.
She is using her loan, partially funded by joinFITE codes, to purchase a computer and re-launch her website to make it easier to purchase her products online.
Featured Entrepreneur: Mabinty
Women have suffered severely in war-torn Sierra Leone, a country in West Africa just slightly smaller than the state of South Carolina. The statistics concerning women are alarming: 73 percent are illiterate; with females currently occupying only 37 percent of secondary school places and 19 percent of university slots.
Education for women and girls is one of the greatest investments to be made in a developing country like Sierra Leone. It can be a key driver for economic growth for the entire nation, and for the communities the women and girls are living in.
Women entrepreneurs like Mabinty understand the importance of educating their children. As a wife, mother to 5 children and caretaker of 3 additional dependents, Mabinty has an established clothing business that helps provide for her household. The microloan she applied for was funded in part by those who unlocked their codes at joinFITE.org. It will be used to help her stock her store and increase her revenue — all so she can build a house for her family and ensure her children and dependents attend university.
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Featured Entrepreneur: Jennifer
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Did you know you can give a hand up to women entrepreneurs right here in the USA? Jennifer is one such entrepreneur who benefited from a loan partially funded by those who unlocked their codes at joinFITE.org!
Jen turned her passion for creating handbags into a thriving business backed by a commitment to sustainability. Many of her collections incorporate sustainable efforts and use local, fair trade and organic materials.
When Jen landed a partnership to sell her bags in a high-end retail store, she did not have the capital needed to purchase materials to fulfill the order. Jen turned to microlender Opportunity Fund in San Francisco, CA, and the rest is fashion bag history!
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Featured Entrepreneur: Judith
Help Break the Mold with joinFITE Codes!
Statistics show that millions of Kenyans — especially women — survive by doing occasional, non-permanent manual work for extremely low and unreliable wages.*
Judith of Kakamega, Kenya, has successfully broken from the instability of the traditional Kenyan job, and is hoping to give a hand up to her neighbors to pay her success forward.
At just 30 years of age, Judith already has 10 years of experience running her own tailoring shop. Her business is successful yet she often runs into financial constraints. For this reason, Judith applied for a loan that was funded in part thanks to joinFITE codes found on Dermalogica products and redeemed at joinFITE.org!
Now, Judith can buy more materials to grow her business, serve more customers, and even start a tailoring school to train and empower her neighbors so they too can find financial independence.
be the next person to fund a woman entrepreneur!
In addition to purchasing joinFITE-sleeved Dermalogica products, you can help fund a loan with your own investment! The best part: Loans are repaid at a 98% rate, meaning your investment can be paid forward again and again. Click here to find a woman entrepreneur to whom you can give a hand up.
*Details provided by www.globalissues.org
