Florence is a 42-year-old single mom of five children, all of whom attend school. She operates a tiny restaurant on the street to earn money to provide for her family’s basic needs and pay her children’s school fees. Her dream is to save enough money to purchase a piece of land to build a house with a shop in front. Florence will invest her loan capital into dried beans, peas, maize flour, cooking oil, wheat flour, onions, rice, and smoked fish. She also plans to… Read More

Santa is a 27-year-old married woman living with her three children (ages 9, 7, and 3). She also cares for an orphan from a distant relative. Santa makes and sells bread to make ends meet and pay her children’s school fees. She is her family’s main provider because her husband has been unable to find work for a while. He does earn some money farming, but his income is sporatic. She aspires to see her children through university studies and build a bakery of her… Read More

Susan is a 44-year-old married woman who lives with her four children and her husband in Magwi County, South Sudan. For the past three years, she has been burning wood into charcoal to sell to make money to provide for her family and pay her children’s school fees. She aspires to build her family a permanent home, expand her businesss, and save money for her and her family’s future. With her loan, Susan will buy two wheelbarrows, a hoe, a panga, an axe, and 200… Read More

Susan is a 32-year-old married woman caring for a large family. She has five children ages 20, 18, 13, 10, and 6, and she also takes care of three orphans. Currently, seven of her children attend school. Susan’s husband has been unable to find work for a while now, so Susan is the sole breadwinner for her family of 10. To make ends meet, she buys and sells women’s dresses, offers sewing services, and sells other essential commodities from a kiosk. She is an ambitious… Read More

Madalena is a 44-year-old married woman with seven children living with her family in Magwi County in South Sudan. Her husband is a seasonal farmer making a meagre income. To provide for her family’s basic needs and pay her children’s school fees, she is teaching basic English at a primary school just to survive because she is not a teacher by training. Madalena also raises goats as a small side business and plans to expand her farm because business is booming along the South Sudan-Uganda… Read More

At 37 years of age, Grace is taking care of a large family. She has four children of her own, and she also cares for three children from her brother’s first wife and two from his brother-in-law. The children are still in school and depend on Grace to provide them with food, shelter, and school fees. She hopes to build a permanent house for her family and see all the children in her care through a university-level education. To make money to provide for her… Read More

Olga is a 53-year-old single mother caring for her four children and two orphans in Magwi County, South Sudan. All the children in her care attend school. To provide for her family’s basic needs, she works at the local Health Department in Magwi County. She supplements her salary baking bread and selling it in a kiosk. She also sells sugar, tea, coffee, Coca-cola, salt, onions, and cooking oil. Olga hopes to one day open her own shop in Magwi County and sell groceries. Olga will… Read More

Ersilia is a 61-year-old single woman who takes care of a relatives’ seven children as well as her deceased sister’s three orphans. She is supporting ten children in getting an education using the money she earns from her business. Ersilia raises chickens and sells chickens and eggs, both of which have a big market in Juba and Torit. From this business, she’s been able to put food on the table for her large family and pay school fees for ten children. Ersilia aspires to expand… Read More

Alba is a 23-year-old mother living with her husband and an 11-month old baby in Juba. Her husband is struggling to find a good job, making the family income inconsistent. To provide for her family, Alba started to sell cold drinks: soda, passion fruit, Fanta, and kerekada (red dried fruit). Since it is very hot in Juba, cold drinks have continual high demand. Alba plans to diversify her cold drink kiosk, which is located in a busy market for second hand clothes for babies known… Read More

Santa is a 46-year-old mother of four children living with her husband in Magwi County. She’s been running a tiny restaurant to make money to provide for her family’s basic needs and pay school fees for her children. She’s the only breadwinner for her family to put food on the table. Her husband has been struggling to find work for a while. She aspires to earn enough extra money to be able to build her own restaurant in a more promising location. She also dreams… Read More

Simone is a 26-year-old married mother of four children (ages 14, 12, 10, and 3). She sells bananas, watermelon, and soft drinks to make money to provide for her family and pay her children’s school fees. Her kiosk is in a central location, which has high foot traffic of 250 customers a day. Simone dreams of buying a van to run her business out of as well as building her family a permanent shelter to live in. She will use her loan to buy bananas,… Read More

Rekele is a 51-year-old woman living with her husband in Omilling country in South Sudan. Seven years ago she started her own business producing and selling bee’s honey. She learned her trade from the Onura women’s beekeeping organization. She puts determination and love into her work to make enough money to support her and her husband’s basic needs. She aspires to expand her sales to other areas and build a house for her and her husband to live in. She also would like to adopt… Read More

Abwoo is a 49-year-old mother living with her four children and husband in Torit. For the past three years, she has been selling bananas, mangos, and oranges to make money to provide for her family’s basic needs and pay her children’s school fees. She receives help from her husband to run a cold drink kiosk. She dreams of one day building her own shop so she can expand her business and make enough money to educate her children and safe for the future. Abwoo will… Read More

Jane is just 20 years old and she is already supporting a large family on her own. Since her mother died three years ago, she has been taking care of her siblings ages 16, 12, and 10. Jane has been doing small-scale farming to make money to provide for her and her siblings. She plans to enroll her siblings in school as soon as she can afford for them to go. She hopes the ten sacks of maize she harvested this year will generate enough… Read More

Hellen is a 27-year-old mother of three children (ages 11, 6 and 3). Two are in school, and the youngest goes to daycare. Her husband is currently unemployed, which means that Hellen is the main breadwinner for the family. She sells beans, silver fish, smoked fish, onions, and green vegetables working from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day. She only takes Sundays off. Hellen will invest her loan into two bean sacks, one sack of silver fish, one sack of smoked fish, one sack of onions, and two large cartons of… Read More

Beatrice is 27-year-old mother of two children (a 5-year old boy and a 2-year old girl). She also supports her late brother’s three children. Currently, her husband is unemployed, which is making things hard for the family. Beatrice has started selling smoked fish, silver fish, cooking oil, maize flour, sugar, bean, rice, and onions to earn money to provide for her family’s basic needs and pay school fees for her two children and the three orphans in her care. She aspires to one day build her own… Read More

Safinah is 49-year-old married mother of five children (ages 17, 15, 13, 10, and 8). She’s the sole breadwinner in her family. Her five children go to a primary school. Safinah runs a kiosk where she sells soft drinks and beer to provide for her family’s basic needs as well as her children’s school fees. She would like to move her business to an area with more foot traffic so she can increase her sales and profits. Her dream is to save enough money to build a permanent home for her… Read More

Jane is a 33-year-old married woman living with her two children (ages 16 and 2) and her husband. She also takes care of four orphans. Five of the children go to school. Jane sells staple foods to customers around her community to make a living and pay her children and the orphans’ school fees. She’s the only breadwinner in her family because her husband has been unable to find work. She aspires to build a bakery to earn enough money to send all the children… Read More

Grace is a 32-year-old mother of three children (ages 15, 13 and 10) who are still in school. For four years, she’s been selling charcoal and firewood to make money to provide for her family and pay her children’s school fees. Some of her money also goes to treat her husband who is disabled and needs medicine. She’s the sole breadwinner in her family. In the future, Grace hopes to buy a piece of land to build her family a permanent three bedroom house along… Read More