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Rasolomampionona Nivoarilala Josea
Charcoal Vendor
FundedMy name is Rasolomampionona Nivoarilala Josea. I’m 26. I have 2 daughters, aged 6 months and 6 years. I’ve lived in Ambohijafy for 26 years. I am married. I studied in school until 9th grade, I am a merchant at the moment but I’d like to use this loan to increase my charcoal business and make more money so that we may have a better life than we do now. My dream is to be able to provide a better and happier life to my family and for my 2 children to receive more education than I do and they’ll by lucky to a have a comfortable job in their future.
Updates
May 2009
Josea: I live in a small house with only one room. It has brick walls, aluminum on the roof and a hard packed dirt floor that I have covered with mats. I live with my children. I have electricity but must get water from the public water pump twice a day.
Jan 2009
Hello from Josea. In my family we eat rice two times per day, for lunch and for dinner. For breakfast we always have coffee with bread or little rice cakes. For example, yesterday for breakfast we had coffee with some bread; for lunch we had rice with a bean sauce and for dinner we had rice with a vegetable sauce. I am always the one who buys the food and prepares it. The thing my family likes to eat the most is rice with fish sauce.
Dec 2008
Hello! It's me, Josea. The illness my family often has is malaria. The climate of Ambalavao is different because here there is not a lot of forest and also because Ambalavao is in the basin of a mountain. The season I like the most is the rainy season because my business does very well. The price of dry manioc goes up because the price of rice goes up a lot. People eat a lot of manioc at the moment and this is good for me so my business does very well and I can't complain.
Nov 2008
Hi! It's me Josea, I always start my day very early in the morning to finish well my householy duties before leaving my house, so I get up at 5 a.m. to go fetch water, to prepare breakfast, then wash the children, feed them and after I get them ready for school and I take them to school and on my return I go to the market to buy food for lunch and I go back home to drop off all of this and I go back to the market to sell the things that I bought in the village and I stay at the market until 11 a.m. and I pick up the children from school and we go home to eat lunch at around 1:30 p.m. and I take them back to school and I return to the market and I stay there until my daughter comes home from school, we eat at 7 p.m. and we always go to bed early, my day always goes like this exept on Saturday and Sunday becasue I go to the maket fair and I leave early on Saturday morning at around 3 a.m. and I only come home on Sunday afternoon exept if there is a reunion of Masomboly.
Sep 2008
Hello! It's me, Rasoamampionina. I have one child who goes to school and he is still in primary. The cost of schooling goes up each year but I find that this year it is gone up a lot. I think that's normal because the price of everything goes up. Children must go to school; thus their parents must make the effort and work hard so they can attend school.It is the same for the school supplies. The children need them, so we must provide them.
Aug 2008
Hello! It's me, Rasoamampionina. My business is going badly at the moment because someone stole my money and I must start again at zero. But it will be OK because I have a stock of charcoal. For the vacation, my children are still little and they don't know what vacation is. For Independence Day, because I lost my money I stayed at home. We did not celebrate as we normally do.
Jul 2008
Hello! It's me, Rasoamampionina. My business continues to go well, but what I do now is going to end at the end of this month because it is the end of the harvest. Then I will return to Ambalavao to start the sale of charcoal again. For me, Independence Day is a very big celebration, because all the villagers participate. I will celebrate also because I have one week's vacation from work, and then I will start work again. But I will not spend too much money on one day.
Jun 2008
Hello from Nivoarilala Josea. I am happy because I my business is going well right now and I have earned plenty of profit. The profits have allowed me to repay my first installment on time. I am thankful for the training we received as well because it helped me learn how to better handle my expenses. Thank you!
May 2008
Hello, Nivoarilala Josea here. I am happy to have this second loan to continue my charcoal business. The loan has allowed me to buy more charcoal to sell and I am very happy about that. My children are able to attend school and it is all thanks to your help!