Entrepreneurs We've Helped

Name: Joana Eshun

Location: Cape Coast, Ghana

Activity: Food Market

Loan Used: To purchase rice for resale

Description: Joana Eshun is forty-four years old. She is married with three children. All of them are currently in school - senior and junior high schools. Joana lives with her children and husband in a rented apartment in a fishing community called Aquase, near Cape Coast in the Central Region of Ghana. She trades rice to support her husband financially. She procures bags of rice from the wholesalers in the nearby cities at cost-effective prices. She sells the rice in cups in her community. Joana also sells on a table top in the market square. She says food vendors and other retailers normally purchase from her. Joana has been in business for ten years and wants a loan to procure more bags of rice to supply more customers.