Disbursement Day

Chikuni, 9 July.

It’s Monday, so it’s time to work.

Today we have the disbursement of the new loans and so we’ll be receiving all the micro credit groups. All of them have completed the first stage in which they received a loan of about 60 Euros each, now they’ll receive 100 Euros. They have to pay a 5% interest monthly and the whole loan will be paid back in 4 months.

Before receiving their loans, each client has to attend 3 different trainings on: micro credit, household approach and business management.

Well, each group received its own loans and every client was happy about this first experience, someone was even embarrassingly thankful.. A loan like that would sound like a joke in Italy, here it truly important.

I ended my day riding a Celim motorbike on the way home, while Chikuni’s tenants were walking their way back home for 15 kilometers after a day of hard work. Do we deserve all that we have got? We’ll never be able to care enough.