MF Achievements Sikor Kamara, Sierra Leone

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A food stand keeps growing and growing

Sikors microfinance project

Name: Sikor Kamara

Country: Sierra Leone

Financing: 100 € and your own money

Project: Sale of various foods

How Sikor builds her business successfully:

Sikor trades and sells various food products such as rice, corn and sugar. After the first year, she was able to pass on her microfinance. Her business grew so much that she can pay for her children's education.

Name: Sikor Kamara

Country: Sierra Leone

Financing: 100 € and your own money

Project: Sale of various foods

How Sikor builds her business successfully:

Sikor trades and sells various food products such as rice, corn and sugar. After the first year, she was able to pass on her microfinance. Her business grew so much that she can pay for her children's education.

The success story of Sikor Kamara:

Sikor Kamara is 55 years old and married. Her four children, a boy and three girls, live in her house. All four attend secondary school. During the week, Sikor is in the town of Kabala, where she runs her stall, but lives with her family in Kaworsor.

Sikor is one of the very first women's groups to receive microfinance from the organization Mindokatie Salone. She buys bags of rice and sells them in smaller quantities. She also trades in various other foods. Since she started microfinancing, the sales of her stall have increased steadily and she has been able to buy more goods, constantly expanding her range and then selling them again. Within two years her business grew so much that she was able to pay a woman some money to look after the children in her absence.

Sikor is one of the very first women to receive interest-free microfinance in Sierra Leone. The women continue to benefit from passing on the money to this day and continue to do so.

Why is the quality of our pictures sometimes not so good?

There is a very simple reason for this: Donation money is not used for expensive cameras. The NGOs and people in the relevant countries document their stories themselves - with the means they have at their disposal. New and good cameras and cell phones are very rare there, so the quality of the pictures is as it is - but these impressions are authentic and real.

KETAAKETI stands for self-determined development through interest-free microfinance, which is passed on from family to family - 100%.



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