Julien Gusman is a volunteer at Komida, in Indonesia. He tells us the story of Ita and her husband Jonah, both microentrepreneurs in Bandung region, who have been able to develop a kite factory thanks to Babyloan support.
Ita is 37 years old. She met her husband in Cibodas village and today they have three children. Her husband has always worked in rice fields on behalf of a big landowner of the region. Ita’s mother taught her how to make kites. At the beginning, it was just a hobby and then, when she noted that the children of the village asked for more, she decided to work full time on this activity in 2012. Further to the visit of a Komida’s agent in the village, she decided to apply for a € 150 microcredit in order to purchase the material she needed to make kites. Then, in 2014, she applied for another loan of the same amount.
This loan enabled my husband to stop working on the fields and today, we employ 13 people
She used the first microcredit to purchase wood, hessians, glue and strings to make kites. Having developed their activity around the village, the couple has found shops in Bandung’s big neighboring city. Today, they sell the major part of their production to toy shops which resell it. Today, the small business employs thirteen people and produces several hundreds of kites each day. It is almost impossible to take a walk in the area more than five minutes without seeing a kite!
