By Robyn Nietert | President, WMI
A 2 year vetran of the WMI loan program, Stella lives in rural Ntrimiti, Kenya. Her loans provided the capital to intensively farm 2 acres of land that yield three crops each of carrots, onions and cabbages annually. She uses organic local manure to fertilize, a for-hire-tractor to plow, and her mobile phone to check with dealers to get the best prices. She demands that the dealers harvest the crops so she can keep her overhead low and she also collects seeds to use for the next planting.
By managing her business carefully, Stellah has managed to save enough to build a new home with glass windows and a tile roof. This is the power of rural microfinance operating at the bottom of the economic pyramid. It empowers village women to lead the lives they want to lead.
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