Paraíso bank

01-Tereza Danelia Romero:she is the coordinator of the group,this is her second loan of $150 dollars, housewife struggling with her children in order to give them a better future and for her grandson too, this loan was to improve the pigs house to put them in a safer place, she is very confident that her group of woman are working with the same encouragement, she tells us that at the group meetings the woman speaks how to resolve the problems with their families, each one of them talks, and if a pig gets sick, what can they do through somebody else experience.

02-Aurelia Mariana Ojeda this is her second loan, she says that in her first loan had some problems with the pig because the pig could not get pregnant and with this loan of $150 dollars, she is going to buy a better pig and adequate food, also with the Vet help that we provide as part of the program follow up, now a days she could pick a better selection and chose to buy a pig with the best feature in order to achive her objectives, her family is ok and she is hoping to spend christmas time with her children and keep working.

03-María Antonieta Romero Doña María lives with one of her daugther the rest of her children already have their own family, she Works on the field as a day laborer with a group of woman of her sector, her daugther takes care of the pigs when she´s gone, already has 2 loan with us, she knows that soon she won´t be able to work on the field because she is an Elder person, that´s why she is working raising pigs because for her is very profitable this business and with the profit that she gets, is to get ready to buy the necessary school supply to send her daugther to the school.

04-Mariana Romero single mother, she also Works on the field as a day laborer, she leaves at 3:am and comes back at 1:pm, she tells us that her father was not interested to send her to school and her borthers went to schools, because he used to say that the womanare for the housework,like do the laundry, ironing, to cook the food, and i don´t want my daugthers to keep growing with that kind of thought, i want them to study and i know is difficult but i´m struggling, she hopes to work well, she has 2 pigs that are about to deliver their piglets in this week, what she is thinks to do is to pay her loan and improve her little house.

05-Ana Julia Romero this lady Works with the pigs breeding ,she pairs up an improved breed pig with an indian breed and this has been functioning well , in the past she had problems with the adatation of the improved breed pig and that´s why she wants to improve the pigs house and make a mix among this two breed and this is functioning well and the plans that she has is to build a kitchen, because she has a woodstove inside the house and is very dangerous for her grandchildren, she is pending of the pig food and she knows that in order to achive her objectives she needs to be present and be persistent.

06-Juana de Jesús Guido Doña Juanita says that this is her second loan, it was to prepare herself because her pig had a delivery of 11 piglets and needed to buy vitamins for the pig and to buy special pig food so the pig would be able to suckle the 11 piglets, her plans is to pay her loan and celebrate christmas eve in family, she says that she is going to keep 3 piglets to continue working with breeding pigs because she has had good results.

07-Yamileth Reyes Pichardo she is one of the youngest in our Project , she is 22 years old and just had a baby this year,Yamileth work with her mother in raising pigs and she says that her mother has lost of experience that´s why herself and her mother work together, she thanks for her previous loan because she was able to help her mother, bought the medicine for her father , this year proposed herself to buy the necessary thigs for the arrival of the baby, and with this new loan of $200 dollars hopes to push herself forward.

08-María Lorenza Guido Doña Lorenza has a loan of $306 dollars, lately she has been very sick and her family support her, her daugther are helping to take care of the pigs, we hope she gets better soon, Doña Lorenza was one of the most active woman, but she has presented renal infection problems, she is getting treated, and she hopes to recovery to keep pushing herself forward for her children.

09-María Auxiliadora Poveda single mother , she has a loan of $150 dollars, this girl requested a loan to purchase improved breed pig, she participated in one experience and she liked it a lot because for her this kind of breed is better, and she tells me that her mother help her a lot, just the fact that her mother Works on the peanut fields as a day laborer and she comes back at 1:pm, she Works on the peanut fields cutting the undergrowth, she says that her mother for her in a huge inspiration and wants to help her mother, just like her mother does for her.

10-Sixta Leonor Ojeda Doña Sixta is a woman that has suffered a lot, and she says that this encourages her to have more strength and she is willing to keep pushing herslef forward,she has a son with spine problems, in order to walk the doctors performed a surgery,but the lack of therapy did not allowed him a better advance, for this reason, she has to struggle for her son in order to provide the resources for the pain medication and for the food. She used to work on the field as a day laborer but now she cant, because she has health problems and spine problems as well, that´s why she is struggling in the pig breeding.

11-Juana Gloria Romero Parriles this lady was the first one to have a loan at ´´El paraiso´´ in 2012 with $150 dollars and now in 2015 she is working with $300 dollars, thansk to her persistence a bank was created at ´´El paraiso´´, she wanted the woman from her sector to have the oportunity of a credit, this lady has changed a lot within the years, form being a shy person she became in a parcitipative and active person, she is a widow ,and three days after her housband past away her only brother die, and her sons help her on the field growing corn and beans because they know, she does not want to depend on anyone,her desire this christmas is to be with her family.

12-María de Jesús Herrera this is her first year in the Project, she says that she always say the group of woman gathered till one day she asked to one of the lady from the group Tereza why are they gathered? And she told her that was part of a group of partners that work together, Doña Jesús says that she likes the organization and she when to get mor info, and she requested to be part of the group, she gathered several times just to listen and then she took the decisión to request a loan of $150 dollars for raising pigs as well, is something that she can do from her house and this allow her to take care of her grandauther, that is under her responsability when her daughter past ways from Anemia, she is hoping to have a good result just like her partners have had.

13-Eufemia Mercedes Herrera this is the first year for Doña Eufemia,she says having some conversations with Doña Juana, told her that she had requested a loan to put a small business, something to help her because her housband does not make enough money but she did not get it because she does not have a collateral, Doña Juana invited her to one of the meetings just to listen how she work with woman united and if she had the possibility to get an space Doña Juana would support her and it was like that, now my hope is to have success just like my others partners and very grateful for the opportunity.

14-Verónica Mercedes Guidothis is also her first year for Veronica, she had problems in the first phase from the bank ´´El paraíso´´, she thought that she won´t be able to work with the microdit loan, and she got excited when we told her that her request was approved, her loan $150 dollars, she wanted to build a little pig house for the 4 pigs that she already had, because it could het stolen, she bought some bricks and corrugated zinc and she told us that she already has one pig to sell, the first thing to do is to pay her loan, buy some gifts for her children this christmas and with the other 3 she is planning to increase them.

15-Juana Francisca Herrerathis is also her first year, she says that she wanted her request to get accepted and when she received the news, she told the woman thanks for trusting her and she wants to work with them in order to follow the objectives. Her loan of $150dollars, was to build a little pig house for the 2 pigs, one of them is pregnant ans she is planning to sell the other one, and keep the piglets, also she is planning to get more special pig food so the pig can have enough milk for the piglets, also she tells us that she is going to celebrate the 15 años to her daugther and her daugther is very excited, is something that her daughter was waiting for ans she is happy to be able to please her daughter.

Puerta de Piedra

Bank

The bank opened with $ 2,500 dollars

Year 2014……………we had a group of 9 women

Year 2015……………………………………..……………. withdrew people:

-María Eugenia Poveda

- María Victoria Acosta

- Benita Mercedes Vivas

New ingress

-Esperanza Margarita Guido.

- Petrona del socorro Hernández.

- Sixta Oneyda Munguía.

-Isabel Cristina Guido.

- Juana Salvadora Reyes.

In 2015 we were working with $2,150 dollars

Bank…………………………… 531.2$

Studying the possibility to integrate 2 woman to the bank.

Lesbia Acosta: she requested a credit for pigs and hens because she has lots of knowledge about the breeding of farm chickens ,because she worked at CECOMUN, she always has been interested in working in this kind of business, she had a hen house with 200 hens, four days ago she was victim of theft, they took away 50 hens, the biggest one that were ready for sale, valued in 150C$ and 3 houndred pound sacks of concentrated food valued in 800C$ eachone, well this really discouragement and she got rid of the small hens because she was afraid that it may happen again, she also is concerned for the pigs because almost got stolen too and she keeps track of it at night, she has pig that gave birht to 8 piglest and she sold them and with the profit she is going to pay her first payment on Octuber the 14th, she told me that her daugther is pregnant, she is 28 years old and her name is Iris, she is concerned because he has developed Diabetes, but she has lost of faith that her daughter won´t have any complications.

Doña Lesbia was the one and only to receive a productive bonus and she has sown 1 ½ acre of corn. She is the coordinator of the group, she keeps in constant communication with the group, this year has been better for her in many ways because despite all the dificulties she managed to pay her loan, she is a grandmother again , she lives with one daugther and two grandsons, in this year she changed business , she requested $ 350 dollars , this was distributed by the following way, a 50% , she is implementing a small vegetable garden in her property, with the objective to bring it to the market and this will be woth it for her home , she has tomato ,squash, cucumber etc. And the other50% she put it to buy fattening pig , till the moment she feels satisfied.

Modesta Acosta:this lady Works with chickens and her loan was to create conditions in order to put he chickens in a safer place, she already sold chickens in four times, she already has the money inorder to pay her fisrt payment, at the moment she has 50 hens ready to be sold. The price depends on th size for example a five day old chick cost 13C$, this is sold to the customer in León and to the neighbors, midium size 50C and a chicken 130C$.

Doña Modesta lives with her housnad , 2 grandsons (under her responsability) and a 24 year old son that has brain damage, he has seizures , so she has to keep an eye on him., she feels gratefull with the credit because is a good way where she feels that provides economic support in her house ,at the same time she is able to take care of her son., doña modesta tell us that thanks to this Project she is able to keep track of the medicine for her son that has seizures ,also tell us about the good experience that she found in this projec and the motivation to keep going. Her Project was to buy vegetables and sells it at the market , she says that always has been interested in this Project and now a days she is putting into practice with the help of this Project , she has a loan of $250 dollars, she still raising hens , she has 2 kinds of hen houses, one just for laying hens and the other one just for fattening , she tell us that usually for this dates she has lost of request and she is selling to the people that comes to her house looking for hens.

María Eugenia Poveda.

This lady has been the most visited by groups because she is always at her house taking care of her pigs, she tells me that she usually wakes up 3 am everyday, to prepare the pigs food, to do the house work and she is constantly cleaning where the pigs are, the pigs are pretty good and beautiful , she lives with her housband and she admits that her spouse is pretty macho and he has never shared the house work with her and is a Little hard all the work just for her and he just waits sitting for the food.

Despite all this Doña María Eugenia does not lose the joy of life, she has a brother that has a delicate health and he is hospitalized, she is concerned that his brother won´t be able to recovery, she is accompanying his brother at the hospital. Doña maría Eugenia did not have problems with the payment of her loan, her pigs were well developed thanks to the good care that Doña María Eugenia gave them, but this year regarding her personal health has been a Little difficult for her , he had an accident in her right eye ,she had to go through a surgery and she does not have a good visión ,the doctor prohibited physical effort therefore she can not work in raising pigs ,she feels a Little sad but her coworkers encourage her take care of herself and start again, her sons don´t want her to stay in the country side and they want to take her into the city so they can take care of her and be fully recovery , the doctor explained her that it will take time for the tissue to regenerate.

María Acosta

Her loan was to buy pigs , she has 2 female pigs that has small size, Doña María has high blood pressure and Diabetes that has gone up to 400, she has been hospitalized and she did not want to tell us because she was scare and would not be able to get a loan,we do not excluted nobody , she is currently taking SINORBORAN that help her to keep it under control ,she says that is hereditary, she has 2 sons , for the same reason she always had problems with her deliveries, she could not have more children ,Doña María feels ready to give her first payment , Doña maría Is a grandmother for the very first time and with many dificulties she managed to pay her loan because she has been having some issues with the Diabetes and has been hospitalized , she can not control it and she has lost weight for the same reason, this year she did not request a loan because she does not feel good to work in a constant way, she trusted that soon will improve her health and try again ,and with the profit of the loan was to get ready for the arrival of her grandson and to buy medicine.