Merrie Saiti, Malawi

Merrie is a 33-year-old woman who had been struggling to raise four children in one of the poorest nations on earth.

But when her parents passed away and left her their modest house, Merrie realized she could rent it out and use the rental income to better care for her children and invest in her small business selling dried fish.

But there was one problem: before anyone would rent the house, the roof needed to be repaired, something that Merrie couldn’t afford. That’s when she went to FINCA and took out a loan to cover the cost of the roof repair.

Today, Merrie’s dried fish business is thriving, and Merrie is setting aside savings every week in preparation for sending her children to college one day … and to their own brighter futures.

Thanks to her ingenuity, hard work, and a FINCA loan caring people like you made possible, Merrie has created a brighter future for herself and her young children.