Location: Abakpa-Nike, Enugu, Nigeria
Age: 32
Business: Seamstress
Name of Business: Sales of clothes.
Loan Amount: 50,000 Naria ($330 USD)
Date Received: 27 November 2010
Personal and Family Information: Left her abusive
husband. She and her children are starting a new life.
Uche Muomah has suffered under her husband for many years and with
the opportunity offered from GLOBE she no longer has to endure this
spousal abuse. Uche decided to leave her husband in an effort to
improve life with her children. She is a seamstress who wishes to
expand her business with this loan that is being requested. She
wishes to continue sewing and trading the clothes to take care of
her family in hopes of being self-sufficient. She wants to prove
her independence by showing that she doesn’t need her husband to
survive.
Uche has already had some success evident in the fact that this
loan is an expansion of her business. A Daughter of Charity remarks
that she is too young to have to go through incessant torture and
beatings. This micro-loan is a life changing opportunity.
**Update as of June 7, 2011:
Uche Muomah was given a loan of N 50,000 (330USD) and used it to
buy clothes from whole sellers and sell them in the local markets.
She repaid the full N 50,000 loan.
“There is a remarkable positive impact in the life of Uche and her
family. Their physical out look and mood of dressing is so
impressive and it has contributed to the fact that she has a means
of livelihood and not living to look up to relatives for charity.”
Sister Olivia, Nigeria
With the help of this loan I was able to accomplish the
following:
The loan has helped me to take care of my family feeding, upkeeps
and paying of my children school fees and upkeep for myself. I am
grateful to St. John’s Global Microloan Program GLOBE for their
assistance.
How has this loan positively impacted your life and that of
your family? Your community?
• It has given me a sense of well being.
• It has helped improve the quality of my
life.
• It has also helped to uphold my dignity as a
woman.
• It provides social security for my self and
children.
Please include any opportunities you had to collaborate
with other people, organizations or government.
I have been collaborating with a water factory that supplies me
with sachet drinking water in a large quantity and I sell them to
local customers/consumers.