Joan is 21 years old and lives in the town of Seeta in the Kireka region of central Uganda. She is married and has two children with one of them currently in school.
For the past three years, Joan has been working hard to manage her retail shop, which makes juice.
To help expand her business, Joan has requested a loan of 1,000,000 Ugandan Shillings (UGX) from BRAC Uganda. The loan will be used to buy sugar, packing bottles, and passion fruits to make more juice to sell at her convenient store. This will help Joan to generate greater profits and using her profits to buy ingredients for the juice to attract her customers.
Joan hopes that in the future she will be able to take her business to the next level and start supplying in different shops and supermarkets.
Joan is a member of BRAC’s Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA) program. In addition to microfinance loans, the program provides both a safe place for young Ugandan women to take part in group activities and a forum for life-skills training.