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Updated: December 27, 2007

For Immediate Release
July 31, 2007

Twelve more women receive small-business loans

In July, 12 more women were selected to join the 21 women already in the small-business loan program. After training, each received a loan of $70 (an increase of $20 from the first group) to start a business. Most of them engaged in the same activities as the first group—making “kolo” (roasted whole barley) to sell on the road, selling tea or coffee with bread, brewing “tela,” a local beer, or buying a quintal of barley to sell in the market in smaller quantities. Some are making soup and others have bought several small sheep to fatten before taking them to market.

Workaferhu, the administrator of the program, has suggested a few women start a bakery in Dinsho since the demand for bread has increased with the building of a worker’s camp near Dinsho in preparation to pave the road between Shashemane and Goba. When I meet with the women in December, I will discuss the feasibility of establishing a bakery and learn more of their personal stories.

TMF hopes to raise $3,500 for the last year of the project, after which it becomes self-sufficient. We wish to thank the people who have already given so generously to help women in Dinsho lead better lives!