P. Shanthi was a housewife who needs to support her son, daughter and grandmother. I asked her how her loan helped her, and she told me how she learnt how to make banana value added products. With that, her monthly income increased by over Rs. 2000. This made it easier meet her son’s bus transportation expenses and her grandmother’s hospital expenditure. She was able to buy a new refrigerator, too.
Now that she has fewer worries about money, she can eat at regular times and experiences less gastric pain. She has bought clothes of her son and jewellery for her daughter. She is highly satisfied with her business and with the fact that she can now travel and attend weddings.
