Yolanda Figueroa Guevara is from Tierra Blanca, Mexico. She has 1 child. She needs a loan of $700 to purchase medication to sell.
Yolanda Figueroa Guevara is from Tierra Blanca, Mexico. She has 1 child. She needs a loan of $700 to purchase medication to sell.
Yolanda is forty-seven-years-old; she is married and she has two children. Yolanda lives in small village called Tierra Blanca located in Veracruz, Mexico.
Yolanda has been selling medications for a living from her small pharmacy. Yolanda applied for a loan and she plans to invest in medications to resell.
Yolanda’s goal is to better stock her pharmacy so she can always have the medicines people need when they are sick. In this way, she can also provide for her children by making sure they have a good education.
In areas where the poor live alongside the more affluent, businesses in the service sector can be very successful. Services include flower cultivation, tailoring/sewing, transportation, repair work, beauty salons and barber shops, and restaurants. Loans are needed to begin, expand, or sustain business with tools and supplies. Loans given to entrepreneurs in the service sector account for around 7% of our loans.
Yolanda Figueroa Guevara is from Tierra Blanca, Mexico. She has 1 child. She needs a loan of $700 to purchase medication to sell.
The community of Vincente Camalote is located in the state of Oaxaca, about two hours from the city of Tierra Blanca. The climate is warm and the landscape is lush and green. Many residents participate in agriculture, primarily harvesting sugar cane. Other economic activities include commerce and fishing.
World Vision is working to improve the health of families in Vincente Camalote by providing housing materials for the improvement of living spaces; restoring water tanks for access to clean water; and supporting medical treatment and HIV- and AIDS-awareness campaigns. We are also supporting education by training teachers and tutors and providing spiritual-formation workshops for teens.
Yolanda Figueroa Guevara is from Tierra Blanca, Mexico. She has 1 child. She needs a loan of $700 to purchase medication to sell.
Mrs. Yolanda sells over the counter medicines like aspirin, alka-seltzer, and saline solutions among others. During the summer season she sells a lot of saline solutions, since people use it to rehydrate themselves.
She says that before getting the loan she was a housewife. Now things are better, because she can buy whatever she needs without having to depend so much on her husband.
She used the loan to purchase more merchandise and to stock up her store. She has been able to get ahead with her family and provide a better quality of life for her children. She wants them to become dependable and trustworthy people in the future when they grow up.
She would like to open a pharmacy in the near future, and to have her own locale. Right now she's renting the place where she is at, and this takes away from her profits.
With her income, she will continue getting ahead with her children, and she would like to save some money to buy things she needs for her house. She also wants to keep on buying merchandise for her store so that the people in her community won't have to go all the way to the center of town to get what they need.
Mrs. Yolanda says, "The loan helped me a lot because I invested it into my business to buy the products for my store."
"I tried to save some money from my profits to continue investing into more merchandise. Fortunately, people always need aspirin, toothpaste, or flu medications, and I love helping them."
"The loan has not only helped my family and my business, but it has also helped my community. Now, people can find a greater variety of products. The loan has also helped my family, and now I can pay for the household expenses and for the costs of my daughter's university education."
"I paid the loan in full. I believe that if someone trusts on you, you need to be responsible with the trust that you've been given."
"Thanks for believing in people like me. I believe that if everybody does their part to help, the world can change."
In the photo she appears with her daughter.
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