Sroeun Kech

Sroeun Kech
Status: Raised
$150.00 Loan Request
$150.00 Raised
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About the Entrepreneur Name: Sroeun Kech
Business Name: Sroeun Kech's Silk production
Location: Khsach Kandal district, Cambodia
Primary Activity: Weaving
Loan Requested: $150.00
Repayment Term: 12 months - repaid monthly
Loan Use: To purchase thread for weaving and to set up a second loom
Date Posted: Dec 5, 2007
Date Funded: Dec 5, 2007

Mrs. Sroeun Kech (age 28) and her family live in a small village across the Mekong River about fifteen kilometers north of Phnom Penh. Sroeun and her husband (age 31), have been married for eleven years and have two sons, the older of whom studies in primary school in the village.
She is requesting this, her second loan from Maxima, to prepare a second loom and to buy thread for weaving. She has been weaving, a skill she learned by apprenticing on a nearby island, since she was fifteen years old. She has since taught her husband to weave and he will use the second loom. He also works at construction, farms, and raises cows. As is almost universal for Cambodians, Sroeun’s main goal is to maintain or expand her business so she can support the studies of her children.