lördag 15 maj 2021

Fortsatt återutlåning april 2021

Här är de sista nya låntagarna efter april månads återbetalningar presenterade. Vi önskar dem alla lycka till!

  • Dora Elisa

    San Gabriel, Ecuador

    A loan helps to buy agricultural supplies and pay for labor and rental of a reaper.

    $25.00
  • Ana Iris

    San José, Costa Rica

    A loan helps to buy supplies for her coffee crops.

    $25.00
  • Anaeufa

    Iva, Savaii Island, Samoa

    A loan helps to buy taro roots, banana tube, wheelbarrow, shovel, rake, water tank, and hand gloves.

    $25.00
  • Ailyn

    Himamaylan, Negros Occidental, Philippines

    A loan helps to buy fertilizer and other farm supplies.

    $25.00
  • Las Uvas 3 Group

    Cotzal, Guatemala

    A loan helps to plant coffee and cardamom.

    $25.00
  • Rosas De Pajales Group

    Cunen, El Quiché, Guatemala

    A loan helps to purchase a variety of thread for her weaving business.

    $25.00
  • Manuela Clemencia

    Chimbo, Ecuador

    A loan helps to buy agricultural supplies.

    $25.00
  • Magaly

    San Gabriel, Ecuador

    A loan helps to buy seeds, mulch, and agricultural supplies.

    $25.00
  • Mary

    Nakuru West, Kenya

    A loan helps to buy seeds and fertilizer.

    $25.00
  • Rita

    Honiara, Solomon Islands

    A loan helps to buy wheel barrow, spades, bush knives and watering cans for her farming business.

    $25.00
  • Mayte

    San Gabriel, Ecuador

    A loan helps to buy a jar of onion seeds and farming inputs, and to pay wages.

    $25.00
  • Chai

    Lamduan, Surin, Thailand

    A loan helps to purchase silk thread, dye colors, and materials for weaving and selling silk cloth.

    $25.00


  • Verusca

    Matola, Mozambique

    A loan helps to buy a tractor harrow to help her increase her area of production of veggies.

    $25.00
  • Lady

    San Gabriel, Ecuador

    A loan helps to purchase agricultural inputs and manual labor.

    $25.00
  • Hellen

    Kitale, Kenya

    A loan helps to purchase farm inputs.

    $25.00


  • Sandra

    San Gabriel, Ecuador

    A loan helps to purchase farm supplies for growing potatoes.

    $25.00
  • Norsultan

    J.Rumi, Tajikistan

    A loan helps to purchase mineral fertilizers, expand business, get a good profit and improve the living conditions of the family.

    $25.00
  • Doriane

    Port Vila, Vanuatu

    A loan helps to buy white fabric and fabric paint for her business.

    $25.00
  • Gladys

    Nakuru West, Kenya

    A loan helps to buy seeds and fertilizer.

    $25.00
  • Diana

    Phalombe, Malawi

    A loan helps to buy more maize to meet her customers’ demands and increase her profit.

    $25.00
  • Rosa Melida

    Portoviejo, Ecuador

    A loan helps to buy fertilizers for crops.

    $25.00
  • 08- Balmadou Group

    Senegal

    A loan helps to farm and to do trade in baskets.

    $25.00
  • 08-Diao Bah Group

    Senegal

    A loan helps market gardening of okra, eggplant, tomato and sorrel.

    $25.00
  • Bremilda

    La Cascarilla-Jaén, Peru

    A loan helps to buy soil amendments and pay for labor to weed his coffee farm.

    $25.00
  • Greti

    Cinco Unidos-Campanilla-Mariscal Cáceres-San Martín, Peru

    A loan helps to expand the area of cacao cultivation on her land.

    $25.00
  • Aziza

    Tash-Kumyr, Jalalabad region, Kyrgyzstan

    A loan helps to purchase seeds and to buy land for growing organic watermelons and tomatoes.

    $25.00
  • Batmakan

    Aksy district, Jalalabad region, Kyrgyzstan

    A loan helps to pay for field work to grow organic watermelon.

    $25.00
  • Stella

    Nakivale, Uganda

    A loan helps to buy manure to boost soil nutrition.

    $25.00
  • Mele

    Popua, Tonga

    A loan helps to buy pandanus for her weaving business.

    $25.00
  • Kimete

    Korce, Albania

    A loan helps to deal with the needed expenses for working, fertilising and planting her lands for the upcoming season, so she will be able to keep providing for her family.

    $25.00
  • Clarah

    Eldoret, Rift Valley, Kenya

    A loan helps to buy certified seeds and high-quality fertilizers.

    $25.00

söndag 9 maj 2021

Nu är det barntröjor på stickorna

 


Nu är det barntröjor i olika storlekar som gäller. Längst ner till vänster ett säkert 25-årig ufo som äntligen fått ärmar. De bruna och gröna är stickade av Tant Koftas bomullsgarn efter ett mönster som, om man stickar in starttråden och gör den enfärgad, bara ger en enda tråd att fästa. Det är förstås en fördel. Nu är det bara knapparna som fattas i fyra av koftorna. Att sy i knappar slår faktiskt att fästa trådar i tråkighet. Det finns därför en viss risk att det kan dröja innan de är inne i kaklet.

söndag 2 maj 2021

Återutlåning april 2021

 Så här ser det ut så här långt med återutlåningarna för april månad.


VI ÖNSKAR ALLA NYA LÅNTAGRE LYCKA TILL!


  • Sanoh's Best Female Farmers Group

    Matoko, Sierra Leone

    A loan helps to pay for seeds, organic inputs, and tractor rental, which will allow these farmers to escape subsistence existance by farming a larger area and producing a higher yield.

    $25.00
  • Sierra Morena's Community-Owned Bank

    Sierra Morena, Nicaragua

    A loan helps to provide working capital for farmers of a rural community-owned bank.

    $25.00
  • Blanca

    San Gabriel, Ecuador

    A loan helps to purchase: agricultural inputs and labor.

    $25.00
  • Farmers' Cooperative Of El Porvenir De Santa Rosa

    Santa Rosa, Honduras

    A loan helps to buy agriculture supplies for beans and corn farming.

    $25.00
  • Ibyiringiro Cb Group

    Rwanda

    A loan helps to buy more African fabric materials and a sewing machine.

    $25.00
  • Nueva Esperanza Group

    Santa María Chiquimula, Totonicapán, Guatemala

    A loan helps to buy two floor looms and a variety of thread.

    $25.00
  • Shahzodakhon

    Tursun-zoda, Tajikistan

    A loan helps to buy fertilizer in order to increase her crop yield.

    $25.00
  • Poko

    Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

    A loan helps to purchase balls of weaving yarn and dye and to save for her family's development.

    $25.00



  • "women's Power" Farmers Group

    Mahayrie village, Sierra Leone

    A loan helps to pay for improved seeds, organic inputs, and tractor rental, which will allow these farmers to escape subsistence by farming a larger area with a higher yield.

    $25.00
  • Angela

    San Gabriel, Ecuador

    A loan helps to buy compost and fertilizers, pay daily wages, and prepare the land.

    $25.00
  • Rasmata

    Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

    A loan helps to buy 35 balls of yarn and dye, and to save money to take care of their family.

    $25.00
  • Baromi's Best Farmers Group

    Matoko, Sierra Leone

    A loan helps to pay for improved seeds, organic inputs, and tractor rental, which will allow these farmers to escape subsistence by farming a larger area with a higher yield.

    $25.00
  • Esther

    Kenyenya, Kenya

    A loan helps to buy farming inputs such as fertilizers, which she will use to improve her banana crop production this quarter of 2021.

    $25.00
  • Khursheda

    Istaravshan, Tajikistan

    A loan helps to buy mineral fertilizers for her vegetable crops.

    $25.00
  • Ramula

    Bundibugyo, Uganda

    A loan helps to buy cocoa to sell.

    $25.00
  • Comunidad De Ruiz Group

    San Raymundo, Guatemala

    A loan helps to buy materials for sewing.

    $25.00
  • Mirriam

    Passi, Iloilo, Philippines

    A loan helps to buy fertilizer, a new variety of seeds, and other farm supplies to maintain her business.

    $25.00


  • María Elidia

    San Miguel-Las Pirias, Peru

    A loan helps to buy soil amendments and to pay day laborers to weed her coffee farm.

    $25.00
  • Mwangaza Light

    Nairobi, Kenya

    A loan helps To finance the sale of energy-efficient cookstoves and solar home solutions to Kenyan households at affordable terms.

    $25.00
  • Grupo Agrícola Tzamjuyup Sector 1 Group

    Solola, Guatemala

    A loan helps to buy land to farm.

    $25.00
  • Francis Joy

    Abuyog, Leyte, Philippines

    A loan helps to buy fertilizers and other farm supplies.

    $25.00
  • Joyce

    Sotik, Kenya

    A loan helps to buy farm inputs such as fertilizer to improve a tea crop farm.

    $25.00
  • Florine

    Faravohitra, Madagascar

    A loan helps to purchase the necessary inputs for potato cultivation.

    $25.00

söndag 25 april 2021

Ett ufo nästan i hamn

 


Ett projekt som påbörjades för säkert minst 30 år sedan har färdigställts. Så lång tid har Kalle K saknat en hand och båda sina fötter. Nu har han fått tillgång till dem. Dessutom har han fått lite kläder. Västen är nystickad av Tant Koftas bomullsgarn och halsduken av något av A:s slaktade projekt. 

Jag ångrade mig lite att jag tog det blå garnet till halsduken när jag kanske borde sparat det till regnbågsvantar. Det går i och för sig att åtgärda genom att slakta en andra gång. Allt som saktar ner produktionen av färdigstickat är ju för närvarande bra.

söndag 18 april 2021

Oops, I did it again






För att det ska gå lite långsammare att fylla på lagren med färdigstickat fyller jag på garnlagret genom att slakta stickade saker som A har donerat. När jag slaktar färdigstickad vet jag inte vad det är för garnkvalité. Jag har kommit på ett bra sätt att ta reda på det. Det tvättade syntetgarnet är lika krulligt efter tvätt som före. Men jag hade som vanligt glömt bort att ren ull inte blir så roligt efter tvätt.

När blandgarnerna och syntetgarnerna är uppnystade finns högen med rent ullgarn kvar. Det är väldigt tidsödande att omvandla den högen till användbart  material igen. Då är frågan, ska jag ta mig den tiden eller ska det bli något annat av högen. Nu är ju odlingssäsongen igång. Kanske får den istället bli till täckmaterial i grönsaksodlingarna.

 

söndag 11 april 2021

Fortsatt återutlåning mars 2021

Nu är återbetalningarna för mars månad satta i arbete igen hos i första hand jordbrukande kvinnor i olika delar av världen. Vi har nu passerat 117 000 utlånade dollar. 

Vi önskar all nya låntagare lycka till!


  • Nen Anyim Group

    Lira, Uganda

    A loan helps to hire land for farming and also to buy quality seed.

    $25.00
  • Keriath Yailyn

    Chiriquí, Panama

    A loan helps to purchase supplies for planting corn and peppers and to pay laborers.

    $25.00
  • Wambui

    Nyandarua South, Kenya

    A loan helps to buy seeds and fertilizer.

    $25.00
  • Farida

    Dj.Rasulov, Tajikistan

    A loan helps to buy sewing materials for creating dresses so she will be able to attract more customers and increase her profits.

    $25.00
  • Fernanda

    San Gabriel, Ecuador

    A loan helps to rent a tractor, buy compost for soil preparation and to pay for fees and levies for the elaboration of yoghurt.

    $25.00
  • Grace

    San Gabriel, Ecuador

    A loan helps to buy agricultural supplies and cane.

    $25.00
  • Los Pioneros De Iribamba Group

    San Francisco, Peru

    A loan helps to buy mulch and to pay laborers to do the work on her organic cacao field, clearing and cutting out the weeds.

    $25.00
  • Zejnije

    Kosovo

    A loan helps to purchase new embroidery materials.

    $25.00


  • María Mirna

    Ilobasco, El Salvador

    A loan helps to pay day laborers to prepare the land for planting staple grains.

    $25.00
  • Sadbarg

    Bokhtar, Tajikistan

    A loan helps to purchase fabric and thread to continue her business.

    $25.00
  • Nora

    Dalaguete, Cebu, Philippines

    A loan helps to buy fertilizer and other farm supplies.

    $25.00
  • Hanan

    Jenin City-West Bank, Palestine

    A loan helps to buy a sewing machine, yarns, silk, and fabrics for her work.

    $25.00
  • Cung Iyi Adaa Group

    Lira, Uganda

    A loan helps to buy seeds and fertilizer.

    $25.00
  • Ggem Farming

    Nkhotakota, Malawi

    A loan helps To provide higher incomes for women and youth smallholder farmers in Malawi.

    $25.00
  • Barchinoi

    Khuroson, Tajikistan

    A loan helps to buy colored thread and fabric to sew and expand her business.

    $25.00
  • Faapaia

    Matautu-Lefaga, Samoa

    A loan helps to buy taro roots, banana tubers, a wheelbarrow, rake, shovel, water tank, hand gloves, a back blower and fertilizer for her business growing taro and bananas to sell.

    $25.00


  • Maysaa

    Jerusalem, Palestine

    A loan helps to buy toys, beds, and prepare the nursery with heating and safety devices to receive the children.

    $25.00
  • Ann

    Nakuru, Kenya

    A loan helps a widowed woman to buy a water tank that she will use to harvest the rain water that normally goes to waste during the rainy season.

    $25.00
  • Elena

    Narra, Palawan, Philippines

    A loan helps to buy fertilizers and other farm supplies.

    $25.00
  • Gauta

    Vaisala, Savaii, Samoa

    A loan helps to buy items such as banana tubes, taro roots, a wheelbarrow and a water tank.

    $25.00


  • Bwenaua

    Uma, Fiji

    A loan helps to buy building materials, farming tools, and equipment along with seeds and manure.

    $25.00
  • Azmenhom

    Baniswef, Egypt

    A loan helps to buy onion seeds with fertilizers and selling the product to traders at a good price.

    $25.00
  • Shahlo

    Dj.Rasulov, Tajikistan

    A loan helps to buy thread, fabrics, needles, and other material she needs in order to increase sales.

    $25.00
  • Leonela Del Carmen

    Patuca, Olancho, Honduras

    A loan helps to purchase fertilizers.

    $25.00
  • Irene Dorotea

    Huancavelica, Peru

    A loan helps to farm potatoes, increase the production and sell it.

    $25.00

lördag 3 april 2021

Glad påsk

 


Det finns många olika saker i lagren av färdigskapat. De här äggvärmarna, sydda av min mor, har funnits med nästan sedan föreningens bildande för mer än 30 år sedan. De gjorde ingen större succé de få gånger vi på den tiden försökte oss på att sälja saker på marknader. 

Eftersom de inte var så väldigt länge sedan de dök upp igen, efter att ha legat bortglömda i låda, har de inte varit med på Urkult, men jag vet inte om de hade gjort succé där heller. Det blir väl att försöka komma ihåg dem till nästa påsk och att lägga ut dem på någon säljsajt. Förhoppningsvis ska de någon gång i framtiden generera några nya kronor att placera i mikrolån.

Glad påsk!