Credit’s Mines is a global solidarity association that acts in favor of microcredit. It presents the story of Alia who lives in Lomé.

Alia Gaou is part of the ethnic group Kabyès. She is 30 years old, she is married and she has two children. One of them goes to school and the youngest is very young. She lives with her husband and their two children in their house, in Lomé, more precisely in Agbalépédo’s district. In order to carry out her activity, she converted one room of their house into a small shop. She has been selling frozen products for four years and she has a varied clientele who comes from various districts of Togo’s capital city. Her husband is operations supervisor agent in Lomé-Tokoin airport. Wages, the Togolese partner of Credit’s Mines and Babyloan granted her a loan. 

Thanks to microcredit, I have been able to strengthen my frozen products shop.

The impact of microcredit on Alia’s life: microcredit enables Alia to bulk-buy goods and to have a broader range of products in order to better meet her clients’ needs.