BASIC FACT SHEET ON:DEC’MICRO  FINANCE INSTITUTION– JULY 2004 – JUNE 2007

The MFI clients use their loan to enhance their businesses.  These clients who are mostly women are in various kinds of businesses ranging from trading, farming and storage.  But with constant training in business management and business enterprise development, some of the women are now moving into tailoring, Hair dressing, Fish Farming, Piggery and Poultry.  Others are into fast food business which they supply to shops.  Others are into production of beverage drinks which they preserve in freezers and sell.  Very few of them are into stone quarry and sand excavation.  Some of them in the fast food business are also into rentals.  About 70% of the clients are still into various forms of trading and are doing well and pay back their loan well.