Friday morning

We would visit every women’s group once a week to see how they were doing, to collect their loan repayments and sometimes give them business training. The Friday morning group is called peace. We started out by giving this group a new loan and we talked about our concerns and things like that. We did a business visit with one of the women, she has cows for milk, beans and chickpeas. She is doing quite well, but she is supporting an entire family of children and grandchildren so most of the money goes to them. Sometimes they came late to the meetings and didn’t have any of what we had told them to prepare ready. Maybe it was lost in translation or maybe they simply forgot. Then we went to another business visit, a kerosene business, she goes to Kenya and buys it and then sells it here. It seemed she made quite a profit on it.