Dewi Andryani
Sector:
Craft and Retail
Country:
Indonesia
Loan Use:
To buy bamboo for weaving and stock for a grocery store
Dewi has stood with her two children, Apit (11) and Nabila (6), outside a shop crying because of hunger. In front of them she has had to beg the shop owner to give them food just so they could eat.
When her children started crying, she became even more upset. She wondered how life could be so unfair.
Dewi’s husband Agus works in construction but is often only able to work once a week, if that. This means that they have sometimes been left without any kind of income at all.
Dewi has started a business weaving traditional bamboo rice cookers, known as kosan in her village, which is about an hour outside of Jakarta. She needs to grow the business so that she no longer has to beg for food and can also send her children to school.
She knows that with an education, Apit and Nabila won’t face the same struggles she has. Nabila can grow up and become a teacher like she dreams.
But without a growing income, she’s not confident that she will be able to pay for them to finish school. She worries a lot about this.
Dewi wants to build a small grocery store to run alongside the weaving business. From it she can sell items such milk, noodles and oil to people in her community. Items that she knows people need and will want to buy.
With small loans, Dewi can grow her businesses so she can earn the income she needs to provide for her children – without having to beg to survive.
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