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Odette Nyirakubwimana
Name:
Odette Nyirakubwimana
City:
Ruhengeri/Nyarutovu
Country:
Rwanda
Activity:
Food sales
Loan Use:
Expanding business through purchasing more food
Entrepreneur Profile
Odette Nyirandikubwimana has been a food stuff retailer for two years. Her business is open for 12 hours a day. With this loan, Odette will be able to expand her business by purchasing more food stuff like rice, small dried fish, cassava flour, tomatoes and many other items.
With the profits from this loan, Odette hopes to buy a house and save for her future. She believes that with the loan, she will be able to pay the school fees for her neighbor's children who do not have enough money to pay for them on their own. She also believes that this loan will change her life and benefit her community.
Odette is 24 years old, single and lives with her mother in the village called Base.
Community Photos
Entrepreneur Location
Local Community
The community of Nyarutovu is located in a hilly area, with access to the road that leads into Kigali, Rwanda’s capital city. Families depend on crops, including passion fruit, green vegetables, and bananas, for income. The climate is characterized by three seasons—a short rainy season, a long dry season, and a long rainy season. The area is served by one small river.
More than 2,500 women in the community lost their husbands in the genocide of the 1990s and now struggle to generate income, often while dealing with the effects of HIV and AIDS. Many children in Nyarutovu live in child-headed households, eat only one meal a day, and don’t attend school.
In Nyarutovu, World Vision is constructing classrooms equipped with toilets, providing educational supplies and paying school fees, building homes for orphans and vulnerable children, ensuring that those with HIV and AIDS have access to medical care, and building water tanks for access to safe water. Learn more about microfinance in Rwanda
Donors funding this loan
Lisa
Jonette
Brenda
Susan