While she currently sells women’s clothing, Tatiana Maslova dreams of one day opening a workshop where she can tailor clothes as well. In pursuit of this dream, she has taken out several loans from HOPE Ukraine, which she is using to increase the profits from her clothing stall and save up for her workshop. In addition, Tatiana has used some of her profits to make renovations to her family’s home—improving living conditions for herself, her husband, and her two children—and to help care for her aging grandmother.
![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)