2021 is a very special year for BlueOrchard as we celebrate our 20th anniversary. Throughout 2021 we will be sharing with you some of the encouraging entrepreneurial stories, personal dreams, and insights into the lives of families around the globe who are struggling and fighting against adversity every single day. Our seventh story is about Grace Kissiri from Tanzania.

 

Grace, you’ve been running this business for some time – have things changed for you over the years?

Looking back to the beginning, I was very young and already had several children. It was quite diffcult to pay for everything they needed without a stable business and I was just starting to set things up, so I wasn’t yet making as much money as I wanted. Working with a financial partner who trusted and supported me with a loan made all the difference. It allowed me to access credit facilities to expand my business more quickly than I would have been able to on my own.

Find the full interview and other 11 stories in our anniversary book “This is My Story”, available on Amazon. From more than 200 million individual stories over the past 20 years, This Is My Story uncovers the stories of twelve entrepreneurs from four continents, who put a small amount of money to work in a big way.