An $80 loan from HOPE DRC enabled Kinkita to purchase used shoes for resale. Having received only one loan so far, Kinkita has already noticed a difference in her family’s life. “With the profit I make, I contribute to the survival of my family,” she says, before proudly adding, “I also have a savings account!” Kinkita also tithes generously. In the future, she hopes to take out additional loans to open more than one business. “May HOPE flourish and remain forever!” she says.
![Before Eveness Mulungu joined the Walusungu (“mercy”) savings group through our church partner in Malawi, she faced days where she and her family ate animal feed because they couldn’t afford human food. But that changed when she joined the savings group. Eveness used her first group loan of about $1.70 (U.S.) to start a business selling doughnuts and beans.
“By the end of my first cycle I made $140 (U.S.),” Eveness shared. “My life is no longer the same now; [I] was regarded as no one in the community. ... This was the first time in my life that I ever touched and owned big money like this!”
Pictured: Eveness, with her husband in front of their piggery—a third successful business that she operates.](https://blog.hopeinternational.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)