MF Achievements Safula Foday, Sierra Leone

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A grocery store

for the village

A grocery store for the village

A grocery store for the village

Safula's microfinance project

Name: Safula Foday

Country: Sierra Leone

Financing: 100€

Project: grocery store

How Safula successfully builds her business:

Safula received microfinancing in 2020, invested 100 euros in her small restaurant and cooked a sack of rice every day for the village community. She gradually expands her business. With the income she can provide her family with food and enable the children to go to school. After 12 months she can pass the money on to the next woman.

Name: Safula Foday

Country: Sierra Leone

Financing: 100€

Project: grocery store

How Safula successfully builds her business:

Safula received microfinancing in 2020, invested 100 euros in her small restaurant and cooked a sack of rice every day for the village community. She gradually expands her business. With the income she can provide her family with food and enable the children to go to school. After 12 months she can pass the money on to the next woman.

Safula Foday’s success story:

Safula is 35 years old and her family consists of 8 people. Her husband is 45 years old and their six children are between the ages of 3 and 15. Two of the children are her nephew and niece. They all live together in a house made of mud bricks and cement.

Safula is 35 years old and her family consists of 8 people. Her husband is 45 years old and their six children are between the ages of 3 and 15. Two of the children are her nephew and niece. They all live together in a house made of mud bricks and cement.

Safula is 35 years old and her family consists of 8 people. Her husband is 45 years old and their six children are between the ages of 3 and 15. Two of the children are her nephew and niece. They all live together in a house made of mud bricks and cement.

Initially, Safula sold cooked rice to neighbors in the village in a mini-restaurant.

Business was going well, but she needed more money to invest and implement other projects. Due to lack of funds, she was unable to purchase more goods to sell and make a profit.

What helped her was the trade in palm oil, which she bought and sold again with a small surcharge.

Initially, Safula sold cooked rice to neighbors in the village in a mini-restaurant.

Business was going well, but she needed more money to invest and implement other projects. Due to lack of funds, she was unable to purchase more goods to sell and make a profit.



What helped her was the trade in palm oil, which she bought and sold again with a small surcharge. So Safula gradually expanded her business and now sells rice, onions and other foods. Her customers come from your village and neighboring communities up to 8km away.


Safula and her husband own a few chickens and sheep. Some of the sheep are regularly sold to help finance the children's education; the chickens are mainly used for the family's own needs.

Initially, Safula sold cooked rice to neighbors in the village in a mini-restaurant.

Business was going well, but she needed more money to invest and implement other projects. Due to lack of funds, she was unable to purchase more goods to sell and make a profit.

What helped her was the trade in palm oil, which she bought and sold again with a small surcharge. So Safula gradually expanded her business and now sells rice, onions and other foods. Her customers come from your village and neighboring communities up to 8km away.


Safula and her husband own a few chickens and sheep. Some of the sheep are regularly sold to help finance the children's education; the chickens are mainly used for the family's own needs.

So Safula gradually expanded her business and now sells rice, onions and other foods. Her customers come from your village and neighboring communities up to 8km away.

Safula and her husband own a few chickens and sheep. Some of the sheep are regularly sold to help finance the children's education; the chickens are mainly used for the family's own needs.

Safula reports that her sales are higher in the rainy season than in the dry season. This is because people work in agriculture during the rainy season and consume more food

In the microfinance group, Safula can talk to the other women about her experiences. They exchange ideas for expanding their businesses and motivate each other to take small shares of the microfinance to be repaid regularly in order to give other women a chance to benefit from the passing on.

Safula dreams of expanding her business even further and enabling her children to receive higher education. Since the cost of living is very high for them, it is still not easy to feed the whole family adequately.


Two of her children go to school in the next town because there are secondary schools there. The other children attend primary school in their village. The children also help out around the house, e.g. B. when cooking, doing laundry and selling goods.

In the microfinance group, Safula can talk to the other women about her experiences. They exchange ideas for expanding their businesses and motivate each other to take small shares of the microfinance to be repaid regularly in order to give other women a chance to benefit from the passing on.

Safula reports that her sales are higher in the rainy season than in the dry season. This is because people work in agriculture during the rainy season and consume more food.

In the microfinance group, Safula can talk to the other women about her experiences. They exchange ideas for expanding their businesses and motivate each other to take small shares of the microfinance to be repaid regularly in order to give other women a chance to benefit from the passing on.

Safula dreams of expanding her business even further and enabling her children to receive higher education. Since the cost of living is very high for them, it is still not easy to feed the whole family adequately.


Two of her children go to school in the next town because there are secondary schools there. The other children attend primary school in their village. The children also help out around the house, e.g. when cooking, doing laundry and selling goods.

Safula reports that her sales are higher in the rainy season than in the dry season. This is because people work in agriculture during the rainy season and consume more food.


Safula dreams of expanding her business even further and enabling her children to receive higher education. Since the cost of living is very high for them, it is still not easy to feed the whole family adequately.


Two of her children go to school in the next town because there are secondary schools there. The other children attend primary school in their village. The children also help out around the house, e.g. when cooking, doing laundry and selling goods.

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