EDAPROSPO Leonor Villagómez Cordova

Mrs Leonor Villagómez Cordova is a cheerful butcher in the small town of Matucana, Peru located about ninety minutes from Chosica and another ninety minutes to Lima. She used your loan to help her butchery business grow. Mrs. Cordova buys live cows, bulls, pigs, and chickens. Her husband helps on the purchasing side of the business. Capital is essential in this step, as you can imagine, because one cannot buy only half a live cow. Leonor and her husband have also recently built a carrel to raise their own pigs. Once the cows and bulls have been slaughtered outside of town, Mrs Cordova transports about 100-150 kilos to her house in town. She has a machine that helps cut the meat (including bones) into manageable slices, a scale to create kilo-specific bags of meat, and a large refrigerator to store the meat. Since her house is only two blocks from the central market, she can bring smaller quantities from there to her butcher stall throughout the day.

Since receiving the loan, Mrs. Cordova’s situation has improved. The extra capital has allowed her to buy more animals and thus increase the amount of meat she can sell in the market. She charges 8 soles a kilo for all types of meat. With that price, she can make 200-300 soles in profits per cow; she sells about one cow a day. Since receiving the loan, she says that her profits have increased due to the increased sales. Her next goal is to buy a car for her business. Currently she has to use taxis to transport the meat in its various stages.

I have included a short video I took of Mrs. Leonor Cordova when I visited her on October 28th.

One quick note, EDAPROSPO is waiting until the end of loans to provide a journal update. In this way, they hope that you can get a better sense of the social impact of your loan. If you would like to lend to other businesses with EDAPROSPO, please visit Kiva.org and search for EDAPROSPO on the lending page.

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[rafagc12]

Good Job men. Continues working about.

[whitneytravel]

awesome josh toro! descriptive and compelling - buen trabajo :)