söndag 26 september 2021

Återutlåning september 2021

 

Nu har ungefär hälften av september månads återbetalningar på Kivalånen hitta ut i världen igen. Vi önskar alla nya låntagare lycka till!

  • Zainab's Female Farmers Group

    Rogbalan Village, Sierra Leone

    A loan helps to pay for improved seeds, organic inputs, and tractor rental fees, which enhance both sustainability and profitability.

    $25.00
  • Cerro Miguel Farmers Group #1

    Cerro Miguel, Panama

    A loan helps to plant lettuce, culantro and cilantro.

    $25.00
  • Arnah

    Pandeglang, Indonesia

    A loan helps to buy a smartphone for her child’s education needs.

    $25.00
  • Ide Cambodia

    Phnom Penh, Cambodia

    A loan helps to cover operational expenses for a water filter business in Cambodia during the COVID-19 crisis.

    $25.00
  • Yeabu's Female Farmers Group

    Rogbalan Village, Sierra Leone

    A loan helps to pay for improved seeds, organic inputs, and tractor rental fees, which enhance both sustainability and profitability.

    $25.00
  • Aminata's Female Farmers Group

    Sendgu Village, Sierra Leone

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

    $25.00
  • Beatrice

    Abothuguchi Central, Meru, Kenya

    A loan helps to access high quality farm inputs for one acre of maize, in addition to advice & insurance, optimizing for increased productivity & profits.

    $25.00
  • Eth

    Prey Veng Province, Cambodia

    A loan helps to purchase more farm supplies, such as rice seeds, fertilizer, and other inputs.

    $25.00
  • Margaret

    Nakuru East, Kenya

    A loan helps to purchase seeds and fertilizer.

    $25.00


  • Eth

    Prey Veng Province, Cambodia

    A loan helps to purchase more farm supplies, such as rice seeds, fertilizer, and other inputs.

    $25.00
  • Margaret

    Nakuru East, Kenya

    A loan helps to purchase seeds and fertilizer.

    $25.00


  • Juljana

    Korce, Albania

    A loan helps to prepare the land and to buy seeds and fertilizer to have a good harvest and make an extra income for her family.

    $25.00
  • Ana Yamilet

    Anamoros, El Salvador

    A loan helps to pay labor costs to apply fertilizers to her corn crop.

    $25.00
  • Samad

    Tbong Khmum Province, Cambodia

    A loan helps to buy a one-hectare farm and grow more rice for the upcoming rice season.

    $25.00
  • Agnes

    Nakuru East, Kenya

    A loan helps to buy seeds and fertilizer.

    $25.00
  • 'Etivise

    Ha'ato'u (Ha'apai), Tonga

    A loan helps to hire women to help with the preparing of her raw pandanus and also pay women to help with her weaving.

    $25.00
  • Jessica Magaly

    San Gabriel, Ecuador

    A loan helps to pay for compost, fertilizers, and labor.

    $25.00
  • Corazon De Jesus Group

    SAN JUAN NEPOMUCENO, Paraguay

    A loan helps to buy seeds, compost, fertilizer, and other products.

    $25.00
  • Margaritas De Nimasac Group

    Totonicapan, Guatemala

    A loan helps to buy traditional fabric for her apron business.

    $25.00
  • 05-Khady Group

    Senegal

    A loan helps to buy groundnut seeds and fertiliser.

    $25.00
  • Twikuremubukene Agric Group

    Rwanda

    A loan helps to buy more fertilizers for growing Irish potatoes and also to buy more Irish potato seeds.

    $25.00

söndag 19 september 2021

Ännu mer av Tant Koftas garn

 



Fotograferingen idag stördes Kakan som tyckte att linnet med peacemärket var skönt att ligga på. När jag drog undan det för fotografering följde hon efter. Därför syns det inte att även den lilla barntröjan har ett av våra signaturmärken, feministmärket. Sakta men säkert jobbar jag vidare på att förbruka 20 kilo bomullsgarn. Det lär ta en stund till.


söndag 12 september 2021

Fortsatt återutlåning augusti 2021

Nu har vi passerat 123 000 utlånade dollar. Här nedan kan du läsa vilka nya låntagare vi valde i augusti. I slutet blev det flera nya lån till jordbrukande kvinnor i Sierra Leone och Albanien. Dessutom blev det några små donationer till Kiva. Det är ju tack vare dem vi kan göra skillnad i världen.

Nu önskar vi alla nya låntagare lycka till!

  • Isatu's Female Farmers Group

    Kontai Village, Sierra Leone

    A loan helps to pay for improved seeds, organic inputs, and tractor rental fees, which enhance both sustainability and profitability.

    $25.00
  • Majlinda

    Lushnja, Albania

    A loan helps to expand her greenhouse in order to plant more vegetables, to increase her family incomes.

    $25.00
  • Anisa

    Bilisht, Albania

    A loan helps to pay for preparing the land for planting and to buy seeds and fertilizers in order to have a good harvest and make a good income.

    $25.00
  • 'Eleni

    Tatakamotonga, Tonga

    A loan helps to purchase pandanus for her weaving and also continue to pay women to weave for her.

    $25.00
  • Silveria

    Gotera, El Salvador

    A loan helps to buy fertilizers and pay for labor to plant corn.

    $25.00
  • Vitrina

    Korce, Albania

    A loan helps to prepare the land and buy seeds and fertilizers in order to plant cabbages and have a good harvest at the end of the season.

    $25.00


  • Kadiatu's Best Female Farmers Group

    Kontai Village, Sierra Leone

    A loan helps to pay for improved seeds, organic inputs, and tractor rental fees, which enhance both sustainability and profitability.

    $25.00
  • Nelita

    Sibalom, Antique, Philippines

    A loan helps to buy fertilizers, vegetables seeds and other farm supplies.

    $25.00
  • Aydan

    Mardin / Kızıltepe, Turkey

    A loan helps to purchase a sewing machine.

    $25.00
  • Jita Bangladesh

    Dhaka, Bangladesh

    A loan helps empower over 470 women micro-entrepreneurs to distribute basic health & hygiene products in rural Bangladesh.

    $25.00
  • Hawa's Female Farmers Group

    Gbasher Village, Sierra Leone

    A loan helps to pay for improved seeds, organic inputs and tractor rental fees, which enhance both sustainability and profitability.

    $25.00
  • Carmen Rosario

    San Gabriel, Ecuador

    A loan helps to buy wood, DM plate, lacquer, sealant, hinges, paint, screws, and nails.

    $25.00
  • Memunatu's Female Farmers Group

    Makaray Village, Sierra Leone

    A loan helps to pay for improved seeds, organic inputs, and tractor rental fees, which enhance both sustainability and profitability.

    $25.00
  • Fatmata's Female Farmers Group

    Timbo Village, Sierra Leone

    A loan helps to pay for improved seeds, organic inputs, and tractor rental fees, which enhance both sustainability and profitability.

    $25.00
  • Kevser

    Gaziantep, Turkey

    A loan helps to purchase more fabrics for her upholstery shop.

    $25.00
  • Fátima

    San Rafael del Norte, Nicaragua

    A loan helps to provide maintenance to 67.70 manzanas of land destined to grow vegetables and taro.

    $25.00
  • Abie's Best Female Farmers Group

    Makapa Village, Sierra Leone

    A loan helps to pay for improved seeds, organic inputs, and tractor rental fees, which enhance both sustainability and profitability.

    $25.00
  • Teresia

    Nakuru West, Kenya

    A loan helps to purchase quality potato seeds.

    $25.00
  • Olusheno

    Windhoek, Namibia

    A loan helps to purchase solar home systems that will be financed for rural customers in Namibia.

    $25.00
  • Ann

    Bungoma, Kenya

    A loan helps to hire labour to help in tiling and harvesting her crops.

    $25.00
  • Zekiye

    Elazığ, Turkey

    A loan helps to diversify her product range in her shop.

    $25.00
  • Mujeres Bendecidas Group

    San Lorenzo, Paraguay

    A loan helps to buy fabrics, threads, rubber bands, paints, paint brushes, and other materials.

    $25.00
  • Janatta

    Brookes Point, Palawan, Philippines

    A loan helps to buy fertilizers and other farm supplies.

    $25.00
  • Deyanira

    Tirrá, Rivas, Costa Rica

    A loan helps to buy farming supplies, fertilizers, and composts for maintaining her coffee crops.

    $25.00

lördag 4 september 2021

Två ufon i hamn

 


Det stämmer faktiskt inte att det bara finns barntröjor på stickorna. Det finns två restgarnsfiltar som kommer fram med jämna mellanrum och därför inte direkt kan klassificeras som UFO. Det kan däremot klänningen och barnskallran på bilden. Klänningen var från början en mössa som bara skulle passat en person med jättestort rastahår och som inne hittat någon köpare på flera år. Därför bestämde jag mig för att göra om den till en barnklänning. Det har väl tagit sådär sju, åtta år. Egentligen var det jakten på mer bomullsgarn att sticka tröjor av som fick mig att ta tag i projektet igen.

Det skulle inte förvåna mig om skallran har legat ungefär lika länge som klänningen. Nu vet jag inte om det finns några fler rena ufon liggande men det finns fler mindre lyckade mössor som ska omvandlas till annat. Det är också ett sätt att inte öka på volymen av färdigstickat, att ta upp saker ur lagret och sticka nytt av de mindre lyckade alstren. Förhoppningsvis återvänder snart möjligheten att komma ut och träffa nya kunder och på så sätt minska lagret. Hoppas, hoppas!