Zoé spent one year within Babyloan team and then she started a social entrepreneurship round-the-world trip with her friend Elodie. In Bosnia, she stopped at Mikra, one of Babyloan’s partner microfinance institutions.

Meliha Mujic is 50 years old, she is a tailor and she owns a small sewing shop in Sarajevo where she has been living for ten years. Meliha is divorced and she has two daughters: one of them lives with her and pursues studies at university, whereas the second one is married.

Meliha has a tailor training and she started to practice this activity in 1994 during the war, in her home city, Bugojno, in Bosnia. Twelve years ago, after she divorced, she ends up alone to raise her two daughters earning insufficient income. Meliha then discovered microcredit, coincidentally, because there was a microfinance institution, Mikra, just in front of her house! She decided to apply for a loan to develop her business by purchasing new material. And then, ten years ago, still thanks to microcredit, she was able to open her own sewing shop in Sarajevo. All the material she has today to carry out her activity, she purchased it thanks to the microcredit.

Microcredit changed my life, both personally and professionally. It enabled me to start a business, to support my two daughters’ needs ad to give them the opportunity to study. All that I have, I owe it to microcredit!

Meliha make made to measure clothes, above all dresses for major events. She would like to specialize in wedding dresses creation and to convert the unused place above her shop into a wedding dress exhibition room.

What Meliha likes the most in her job is to create unique and personalized pieces. She never makes classic and impersonal things. In every clothe she makes, she adds her personal touch and to Meliha, sewing is a way to express and to liberate her creativity.

Thanks to her personal touch, her professionalism and her seriousness, she has a loyal customer base and a lot of work!