Dionisia Bernal Segundo is from Carmen Ocotepec, Mexico. She has 1 child. She needs a loan of $400 to invest in items like: liquid soap, rice, bottled "mole", large chipotle peppers, drinks, juices, lamps, and lightbulbs.
Dionisia Bernal Segundo is from Carmen Ocotepec, Mexico. She has 1 child. She needs a loan of $400 to invest in items like: liquid soap, rice, bottled "mole", large chipotle peppers, drinks, juices, lamps, and lightbulbs.
Doña Dionisia lives in Carmen Ocotepec, in a small 2 bedroom home with her 13 year old son, Jose Luis.
She runs her own grocery store, which typically sells fruits and cooking oil, but realizes she is lacking a lot. With this loan, Doña Dionisia will stock her store with more products, and therefore be able to provide better serve to her beautiful community.
She says, “I want to be able to support, and provide an education for my son.” She is also grateful, and realizes that this will loan will directly improve her quality of life.
Retail is a quick and scalable way to begin earning a profit. Many entrepreneurs entrepreneur begin with stalls at markets or even at home and need a loan to expand or increase their inventory. Others may be ready to open a small store. Goods purchased from loan funds range from clothing, grocery or sundry items to jewelry, candy, perfume or health and beauty supplies. Loans in the commerce sector account for around 33% of our loans.
Dionisia Bernal Segundo is from Carmen Ocotepec, Mexico. She has 1 child. She needs a loan of $400 to invest in items like: liquid soap, rice, bottled "mole", large chipotle peppers, drinks, juices, lamps, and lightbulbs.
Home to a primarily ethnic Mazahua population, the community of Najhé is located in a mountainous region in northeastern Mexico State. The climate is sub-humid, but temperatures are typically cool due to the region’s high elevation. Windstorms are common during the early spring, followed by heavy rains in the summer and frost in the winter.
Women in Najhé continue to wear typical Mazahua dress, and some community members uphold traditional artisan practices, producing pottery, woodwork, and crafts made of wool. The primary economic activity is agriculture. Squash, beans, and fruit are grown for consumption, while corn is grown both to eat and to sell.
World Vision’s work in Najhé includes agricultural assistance to improve nutrition and family incomes; vocational training and tutoring sessions; and self-esteem workshops. We are also working to improve health conditions by training volunteers who can educate community members and by providing housing materials that will contribute to better living environments.
Dionisia Bernal Segundo is from Carmen Ocotepec, Mexico. She has 1 child. She needs a loan of $400 to invest in items like: liquid soap, rice, bottled "mole", large chipotle peppers, drinks, juices, lamps, and lightbulbs.
Mrs. Dionisia requested a loan to invest in her grocery store through the purchase of products such as: soap, oils, canned food, rice, mole, flour and candies.
She says that she's making very low profits because people complain that prices are high.
The profits that she does make are helping to improve her and her family's health. She has been sick with the flu and she was able to pay for the treatment too.
One of her challenges is to increase the number of clients that she has because people are always looking for the lowest prices.
Mrs. Dionisia is very grateful for all the support that she's getting.
Thank you for supporting Dionisia and World Vision Micro!
Mrs. Dionisia says that her business has improved and she gives thanks to God for that. Even though she has competition, she says that she treats her clients well and they keep on coming back. So she sells the same or sometimes even more.
She says that with her profits she able to put food on the table, cover her children's needs and make her loan payments. She says that before it was hard because they didn't have money for food, but now that situation has changed.
The income that she's making through her store is helping to make the loan payments and reinvest in products. She's very happy, and she says that she can't ask for more.
Mrs. Dionisia is very grateful for the opportunity that she's been given through the loan. She says, “Thank you for helping the people who are really investing in their own business, and please continue helping those in need."
She hopes to continue having good sales. She wants to have a savings, and to live a life like up to now, without needs. She also hopes for her and her family to be in good health to continue working in their store as well as in their fields.
Dionisia has repaid her loan in full. These loan funds are now available to help another worthy entrepreneur in her community. Thank you for supporting Dionisia and World Vision Micro!
