EDAPROSPO Socorro Berrocal Chipana

Mrs. Socorro Berrocal Chipana lives and works in the town of Huaycan, an exurb of Lima, Peru. She sells a large variety of chicken dishes both in the market near her house and walking around nearby neighborhoods. Every day at 4am she goes out to buy the ingredients for her meals and returns around 6 or 7am. At 8.30am she is at the market selling food and continues to do so until 1 or 2pm. At 4pm she goes back out, this time walking, and sells more food in nearby neighborhoods and plazas until 8 or 10pm. The real story of the impact of your loan, however, is the change in her family life.

Socorro lives on a hillside known as Zona J in a makeshift house with eleven other members of her family. Pictured are Socorro (right), her mother, her daughter, and her granddaughter (left), and her other daughter (right). Since receiving her loan, their situation has improved. She now makes 50 soles in profits a day and has the ability to buy a few items for her household. Nutrition-wise, the family used to have to go to a comedor (a food kitchen – many poor neighborhoods in Lima have these; they typically serve soups and at low costs) but now she can cook at home. Her daughter Maria Elena (far left) has also gotten into the family business and travels to a town 30 minutes away to sell various chicken meals as well. Before her relationship with EDAPROSPO (your loan was her second ever), she could only sell food when she had enough money to buy the ingredients. She worked in that unsteady method for almost twenty years. Given the success of her two loans so far (Maria Elena is now a client of EDAPROSPO as well!), Socorro hopes to use her next loan to buy a pollo broaster (rotisserie chicken). She believes business and her family’s situation will continue to get better but told me ‘only time will tell’. Thank you for being a part of this exciting period of Socorro and her family’s life.

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