Wokai Member: 纪晓刚

My name is Chen Qiming and I’m 64 years old. I’m an ordinary woman living in Shuangsheng, 3rd village. My four children are all married now and live on their own. My husband used to do wage labor away from home and earne...   [View Profile]

My name is Eerdundagula, and I am 38-year-old. My family, consists of my husband and our lovely daughter. We live in a village in the town of Suai. At home, we have 20 acres of dry land, about a dozen of sheep, and six c...   [View Profile]

My name is Chen Mingxia. I was educated up through middle school. My family and I live in Yiliong Village, in Fuxing Township. I am thirty four years old, and have two children. Their school work is good, and we are a ha...   [View Profile]

My name is Xiezhuqing and I am 51 years old this year. There are four people in the family. Due to hard circumstances, my children are working outside our community. Although we are able to feed and clothe ourselves, we ...   [View Profile]

My name is Xie Haihong, I am 24 years old this year and am part of a four-person family. We live in Taobai village, in Daban township. I have one son and a cute three-year-old daughter called Ke Xin. I come from a very p...   [View Profile]

I heard that there had been a change of fortunes in my home town in recent years as a lot of economic development had happened there and I thought that this represented a good opportunity for me. As I am still young I wa...   [View Profile]

I am a herdswoman from Inner Mongolia. This year I am 45 years old. My family had four members and we used to be very happy. My elder son is already married, and my younger son works as central heating labor. He often le...   [View Profile]

My name is Rao Yumei, I am 34 years old, and I live in the Zhouhe neighborhood. My husband is a teacher, and we have a 12-year-old daughter, who is very clever and obedient and is studying at middle school. Our family is...   [View Profile]

In September of 2010, I borrowed 6,000 RMB to invest in my clothing business, bringing in more varieties of clothing styles, and expanding the scale of my business. After a few years of hard work, business was booming an...   [View Profile]

My name is Wang Bihua, and I am 55 years old. I live in Shuangsheng town, Huohong village, 3rd society. My family has six members: my husband, my son, my daughter-in-law and two grandsons. My family has always been hardw...   [View Profile]

My name is Wang Jinmei. I am 24 years old. I just recently got married. People often say that once you get married, you'll also start working. However, my husband and I are married, and we are still out of work. We did n...   [View Profile]

My name is Yuan Xiaofu. I am from Yilonggou village, Saijin town, Yilong County. I am 29 years old, and I have a middle-school level education. I have a family of four: Two children, one son and one daughter. My son is i...   [View Profile]

My name is Wang Shuli, and I am 34 years old. There are three people in my family; and we are living in a village near Daban Town in Zhentaobai. I have long been a borrower of micro-loans, and the continuous help they ha...   [View Profile]

My name is Burenqimuge and I am 30 year old. There are three of us in my family and my daughter is at junior high school in Daban County. In 2009, when microcredit became available in Baomutugecham I took out a microloan...   [View Profile]

My name is Sarengaowa, and I am 37 years old. I am a herdswoman from Daban town, Malaqin Xincun. My family has three members. My daughter is in sixth grade. Since she was little she has liked to learn, and she is also ve...   [View Profile]

My name is E'erdungaowa and I am 46 years old. In 2008, I moved to Bayandalasumu, Baomutunaizhan town district no. 82, where I live today. When my daughter was four and my son had just turned 8, my husband and I divorced...   [View Profile]

My name is Li Huilian. I am Han Chinese and 40 years old. My family lives in Hongqi Gacha Village, more than 15 kilometers from the county town. When I got married I couldn't speak a word of Mongolian dialect and found t...   [View Profile]

I used to work for a rug company until it went bankrupt in 1994. After being laid off from the rug company, my husband and I were forced to do day labor to provide for our family. Just after my son turned six years old, ...   [View Profile]

My name is Wurentuya, which means "Dawn". I am 29 years old, and have been married for three years now. I have a 4-year-old son. I am originally from Bayanhan village in the Daolububian area of Inner Mongolia, which is a...   [View Profile]

My name is Narentuya. There are three of us in my family. My son is a first-year in college. I have borrowed microloans in the past. My family's main source of income is animal husbandry, but the continued drought and de...   [View Profile]

My name is Zheng Yuhua. I am 38 years old and live in Shuanglong in Zhouhexiang with my husband and two children. Previously, my husband went out to do manual labor while I stayed at home sowing the fields and breeding o...   [View Profile]

My name Aodenggerile; it means “starlight.” I am 37 years old and I live in Jiazhuang Daban town, Masitalagacha village. In the beginning, there were 6 people in my family: my grandmother, niece, mother, and three of us ...   [View Profile]

My name is Zhangmingqiong, and I am 46 years old. I live in Shuangsheng county, in the Qunli community. There are four people in my family, including my husband and two sons. Our oldest son is already working. Every year...   [View Profile]

My name is Hudagula, which means "cousin." I'm long-time micro-credit customer, as well as a group leader. We have three people in our family. My son attends elementary school. He's very smart, studies well, and wins all...   [View Profile]

My name is Hasihua, I live with my family of three, though my husband is usually out delivering supplies. Originally the three of us lived in very poor conditions in a remote village quite a long way from Daban county to...   [View Profile]

My name is Gu Junrong. I am 36 years old and live in Shuanglong. My husband and I have two children that have recently started school, so together there are four of us. My husband spends most of the year away doing manua...   [View Profile]

My name is Xi Su Bi, and I am 38 years old. I live in Fu Xing Station, Do Wu Community. I have a family of four, with a son and a daughter. The older son is in senior high, and the younger daughter is in junior high. Bot...   [View Profile]

My name is Wuyunqimuge and I am 39 years old. I live in Daban County in Haorao Town, Baiyinaobao Village. I have been using microloans for thirteen years. Thirteen years ago, my life was in a difficult spot. My family ha...   [View Profile]

My name is "SaRenGeRiLe", which means Moon Light in Mandarin. I have a family of three, including a lively and cute daughter of 14. She has loved to draw since she was young, and has received numerous awards for her draw...   [View Profile]

My name is Narensiqige, which means flowers under the sun. I am a 46 year old woman living in Mastalagacha Village, Daban Town. There are three people in my family, and our daughter is in college right now. The whole fam...   [View Profile]

My name is Wurenqimuge and I am an ordinary herder. Furthermore, I have been director of the regional microfinance center for 11 years. Before microcredit became available, all herders here entrusted their fates and thos...   [View Profile]

My name is Xintuya. I am 31 years old and have a 8 year old son who is studying in first grade in primary school. Because I grew up in a very poor family with many brothers and sisters, my parents could not afford to sen...   [View Profile]

I am 45 years old and my name is Tuya. My family of 3 moved to Chifeng, Inner Mongolia almost 3 years ago now. Before coming here our lives were in a relatively remote, happy part of Inner Mongolia. At that time our fami...   [View Profile]

This year I am 47 years old, and my name is Wuganqimuge. I have a son who has gotten good grades since elementary school and is now in the province capital studying in his second year of university. Our family of three l...   [View Profile]

Hi. My name is Xu Hongqiong. I'm 26 and I live in Guo Shan, a small and remote farming village. Naturally, conditions are lacking here. If you only rely on farming, its impossible to support a family. For this reason, th...   [View Profile]

My name is Zhou Jin Fu, and I am fifty nine years old. My family lives in the sixth district of Xinhua village in Zhouhe County. I have two sons, both of whom are working away from home. Due to our village’s poor geograp...   [View Profile]

My name is Tang Hua Zhen, a resident of Yi Long district, Shuangsheng Town, Village No.11, 3rd group. There are 6 people in my family including me, my father, mother, husband, and two children. Both of my children are st...   [View Profile]

I am Xu Zexiu, and I live in Shuangsheng Guoyuan Village. My family has six members, the oldest are the parents, the youngest are the two girls, and the older one is going to high school. The parents are old, for the fam...   [View Profile]

My name is Aerguna and I’m 31 years old. I’m a regular herder in the village of Xilamulun in Daban Town. I studied in town but married into this place full of dessert and wind, covered in dirt on sunny days and mud on ra...   [View Profile]

My name is Mudan, and I am 28 years old. I am a herdsman in Malaqin new village. I have a happy family of three. My daughter is 8 now, a first grader in primary school. My husband and I only graduated from primary school...   [View Profile]

My name is Meiqigege, and I'm 42 years old. I married my husband and moved in with his family, which is in a remote rural area, fifteen years ago. At the time, my husband was an elementary school teacher, and I stayed ho...   [View Profile]

My name is Layue, I am 50 years old. My home is in Daban town, Baixing Gacha (village). I have a son and a daughter, they both are already married and have started their careers. At home there is only my husband and me l...   [View Profile]

My name is Hong Mei, and I am 39 years old. There are three people in our family; my son attends an elementary school in the Daban county capital. My husband is disabled, but he's honest and kind, and works as hard as he...   [View Profile]

My name is Siqintuya, which means beautiful rays of sunlight. I am 38 years old, and I live in the town of Daban. There are three people in my family. My daughter is in elementary school in fourth grade. She loves to sin...   [View Profile]

My name is Xiaorong Chen and I am 36 years old this year. I live on Shangmao Street in Fuxing town. There are four people in my family, including my husband and I and our two kids. I am from Chungking city. I met my husb...   [View Profile]

My name is Rao Zhenju, which means 'true chrysanthemum' and my family lives in Zhou River district. This year I am 31 years old. I have been working as a labourer for the past few years, living in various places and savi...   [View Profile]

My name is Sarengaowa. I am 37 years old. I am just an ordinary herdsman from Mara Qin village in Daban County. There are three people in my family. My daughter is in the 6th grade. She has loved learning ever since she ...   [View Profile]

Hi, my name is Wulangerile and I'm 45. I live in Daban city, Baoligegacha Peace Village. My house is situated some distance from the city which makes life and transportation somewhat difficult. In the past, our livelihoo...   [View Profile]

My name is Deng Ringying, and I’m 35 years old. I’m from out of town. Because my family was very poor, I only have a primary school education. At 16, I started doing manual labor. By the time I was 24, I still hadn’t had...   [View Profile]

My name is Chen Rongfang. I'm 56 and live in Zhou He township, Fang Ba Village. I have two boys who are all grown up and have started their own families and careers. My oldest son has a 3 yr old hiself; my youngest just ...   [View Profile]

I am a herdswoman, and there are three people in my family, with my daughter a junior in college. In 1998, I took a micro-loan of 1000 RMB and started selling dairy products. It was rare to see a woman in a pastoral area...   [View Profile]

My name is Zhu Kun; I’m forty-one and live with my family on Ma’an Street. Although we are located in a geographically favourable area and have very convenient transport links there is a heavy burden on my family at the ...   [View Profile]

I am Luo Zhilong of Zhouhe Jinguang Number 4 Village. I am 45 this year and there are five people in my family. Because we are located so far from town, our living conditions are quite rustic and daily life is unusually ...   [View Profile]

My name is Morigengaowa and I'm 45 years old. I live in a village near Daban County. There are four people in my family; my son is currently in university and my mother-in-law is staying with us. She is very old but she ...   [View Profile]

My name is Bao Juan. I’m 24 years old and have a happy 3-person family. We have an adorable little girl whose name is Sa Chula, meaning “brilliant.” We live in Bairin Youqi, Inner Mongolia. Because my husband’s family wa...   [View Profile]

My name is Alaatangaowa; I'm thirty-five. There are five people in my family and we live in community number five in the village of Tabenhua which is located about thirty kilometres from the county capital of Chaganmulun...   [View Profile]

My name is Liu Shuyin, and I live in Shuangsheng, 1st community. I have three children, the two oldest of which have already married. My family altogether has 6 people. My husband and I are constantly taking care of the ...   [View Profile]

My name is Hasi Siqige, I have borrowed microloans before. My family lives in Daban town, Baolige Gacha Wuxing village (Duguilong). Now there is only me and my husband, our children already got married. The source of our...   [View Profile]

This year, just after Spring Festival, my two children started school. I need quite a sum of money to cover their tuition fees. Right now, my son is studying in Chengdu. Every year, his living expenses grow. My husband i...   [View Profile]

My name is Zhao Xuewu, I am 34 years old, my family lives in Baiyan, 6th society. My family, that are my old aged parents, my two children and my wife, all in all six people. Because my family lives in a remote mountain ...   [View Profile]

My name is Aodaohu, and my family lives in Guisutai Village, Daban Township in Inner Mongolia. Our children are all married, so my husband and I live alone. We live a long way from the Daban county seat, and there is no ...   [View Profile]

My name is Mengherile, I am 44 years old and a herdswoman from a town called Daban in Hongqi Gacha. In 2000, our whole village followed a call from the government and moved away from [its original location in] Shawodi. M...   [View Profile]

My name is Han Xiuxia, and I am from Haoraoqingachajinxing village in the Daban township. It's just me and my husband now as our children have all married and moved away. I have used microloans several times before. Ten ...   [View Profile]

My name is Siqingaowa, which means smart and beautiful. This year I’m 51. In 2001, we moved from a desert area with inconvenient transportation to Malaxin New Estates. Just at the time we relocated, we sold all our lives...   [View Profile]

My name is Xiu Lan, and I'm 31. My family of three lives in Bayantalasumutabenban, in Baiyinbaotu village. In April of this year, I learned about microloans from some good friends in my village. After learnign about the ...   [View Profile]

My name is Hudagula, which means "cousin." I'm a long-time borrower of microloans, as well as a group leader. There are three of us in our family. My son goes to elementary school. He's very smart, studies well, and wins...   [View Profile]

My name is Hasigerile. I’m 48 years old and I live with my family in community number four in the village of Shabutai, Chaganmulun County. We are a family of eight. At seventy, the most elderly member is my mother-in-law...   [View Profile]

My name is Aodunqimuge. I am 33 years old. I have five people in my family: my mother, my husband's eldest sister, and my family of three. My father died a while ago while my husband's sister is unable to work as she was...   [View Profile]

My name is Liu Shifen and I'm an ordinary villager from Qunli village, near Shuangsheng town. I'm 40 years old and support three children: two daughters and a son. My daughters are both in high school, and my son is just...   [View Profile]

My name is Sirigunqiqige, and I am part of a family of four. I am 50 years old. Both of my children have completed university. I am a returning microloan borrower, having used them for 12 years now. I think back with sad...   [View Profile]

My name is Guan Xiaoli. I am 30 years old. My family lives in Daban Town in Chifeng City, Bairin Right. Originally, my family had 10 mu of dry land on which we grew corn every year to support ourselves. We previously liv...   [View Profile]

My name is Song Guiqiu and I'm 43. I've got a family of three and my 19 year old daughter is in high school. When my husband and I got married 20 years ago, we were penniless, and had no choice but to rely on wage labor ...   [View Profile]

My name is Narenqimuge and I am a new microloan borrower. I am 52 this year and I currently live in the Number 4 Neighborhood in Gazha Village, which is in Chagan Township. After my husband’s untimely death from illness ...   [View Profile]

My name is Guilan, and there are 5 members in my family, including my three-ear-old daughter and my parents-in-law, who also live with us at home. My family mainly relies on income produced from dairy cow farming, which ...   [View Profile]

My name is Xu Shu Ying. I am fifty-four years old and I live with my family of five on Chow's River Avenue. We borrowed money several years ago to carry out maintenance on our home,and are still in debt today. My son and...   [View Profile]

There are 3 people in my family, with my daughter in high school. We moved to Malaqinxin Village in 2000. We have been herdsmen for generations, and have never cultivated irrigable land. We sublet our allotted 3 Chinese ...   [View Profile]

Hello. My name is Deng Biqing. I live in the 4th District of Star Village in Erdao City, Yilong County. There are six of us in our family. Our parents are in their 70s, and we have two daughters aged 14 and 11 who are bo...   [View Profile]

My name is Aogundegute, and I am 38 this year. I have a thirteen year old boy in elementary school and me and my family are typical residents of Da Ban village. We originally lived in the countryside, where our lives wer...   [View Profile]

My name is Wuyun Tonglaga, it means "intelligent" in Mandarin. I'm a herdswoman from a village near the town of Daban, Inner Mongolia. This year I'm 45 years old. There are three people in my family. We are very poor and...   [View Profile]

My name is Jiang Jie, and I live in Heping Village in Yilong County, of Sichuan Province. There are four people in my family: me, my husband, and our two children, a son and a daughter who are both in school right now. M...   [View Profile]

My name is Siqin and I am 31 years old. I am a farmer from Hongqi village in the township of Daban. Altogether, there are four people in my family, including my elderly mother who is now 76 years old (sadly my father pas...   [View Profile]

My name is He Shuqing and I’m 65 years old. I live in Shuangsheng. Altogether, my family has six members. My son and daughter-in-law are both away doing temporary work, and their luck hasn’t been too good. My daughter-in...   [View Profile]

My name is Wu Yong, I live in Fulin Jinguang Sishe, and I am 42 years old. There are four people in my family. One of our kids went straight to work right after graduating from high school last year; and the younger one ...   [View Profile]

My name is Zhaoxiuqin and I live in Baixing Village in the town of Daban. I’ve been a recipient of microloans before. The year before last, I borrowed 4000 RMB from Wokai to buy a grinder, which was needed for our farm e...   [View Profile]

My name is Xubing, and I am 26 years old. I live in Community number 4, Shenxi village, Zhouhe County. As our village is relatively remote, opportunities around here are quite limited. Previously I would leave home to fi...   [View Profile]

My name is Zhang Shulan. I am of Mongolian ethnic heritage. I live in Masita Lagecha village. I am 35 years old. There are 6 people in my family. Before my husband and I were married, my husband's father had already fall...   [View Profile]

My name is Chen Linhe. I am 56 years old, and I am from the District 6 of Xinhua village, Zhouhe town. I used to be the leader of our production team. That let me stay at home, so I never had to become a migrant worker. ...   [View Profile]

My name is Chaolumenqiqige, and I am 24 years old. I’m an ordinary herder. When my husband and I married 4 years ago, we only had a few thousand Chinese Yuan, so we rented two rooms in someone else's house. In the beginn...   [View Profile]

My name is Guo Xiuzhen, I am 60, and I live with my family of three in Baiwafang village near Fuxing town. I have raised five children to adulthood, with the first four already gone, raising their own families. Now, just...   [View Profile]

I have never attended school for a single day of my life and I don't want my children to suffer the same fate - to be denied an education. Right now, I work as a cleaner on the streets and my two children are in middle s...   [View Profile]

I’ve been using micro-credit loans for about four years and they have really helped my family. During the last few years, I have had to support my children’s education and I was diagnosed with a degree of deafness. That ...   [View Profile]

My name is Jiang Li. I have a family of four. I live at the foot of the well-known Yuzhangsi, which is now part of the village of Longwang temple, Shuangshen county. I live a simple peasant life. Here, the mountains are ...   [View Profile]

My name is Xue Ergao, I live in the Qishan 3 Community, and I'm forty years old this year. My household consists of my parents, both of whom are over seventy years old, my wife, and my two high school age children. Our f...   [View Profile]

My name is Siqingerile. I am 33 years old, raising an adorable, spirited daughter named Narenzhuge, who is currently in primary school. I have been using micro-loans for 6 years, and have used this money every year to ta...   [View Profile]

My name is Naren and I live in Bayantalasumu, Baomutu farming community. My family of three raise dairy cows to make a living. My daughter will start middle school in September and next year could go to university, but h...   [View Profile]

My name is Zhou Yanfei, I am 23 years old and there are three people in my family. My daughter is six and she is clever and sweet. I am a farmer in Taobai village near the Daban county. When I first started living with m...   [View Profile]

My name is Eerdunqimuge. I am in a family of three, living in Bayentalashumubomuto dairy station community. I used to be a substitute teacher in Shumu village, earning 500 RMS a month. My husband works the odd job. The e...   [View Profile]

I am an ordinary herdsman and I'm 41 years old. After moving to the new Ma Laqin village in 2000, my family of four lived only on the money my husband and I earned working for others. But unexpected things happen. In 200...   [View Profile]

I am an ordinary herder living in Baomutu village. I am 47 years old. There are three people in my family. My son is currently attending preschool in Bayantalasumu. Our family's primary source of income comes from raisin...   [View Profile]

My name is Zhou Zhujun. My family and I live in Dingzi Qiao Village, Yuantan community 3. My husband passed away three years ago. I am responsible for my two children who are now in high school. I need money to support t...   [View Profile]

My name is Qiqige, and I am a previous borrower of microloans. I am 38 years old, and my family lives in rural Inner Mongolia. My family's main income source is through raising cows and sheep. In recent years, I have use...   [View Profile]

My name is Wuyungaowa and I am 49 this year. I live in Shijiazi village, in Daban town, where I make my living as a herder. I’ve been using microloans for the past 11 years now. Eleven years ago, my family and I lived on...   [View Profile]

My name is Siqin and I turn 25-years-old this year. I live in the village of Bao-Li Ge Ga. There are four people living at home. There's my lovely 2-year-old daughter, and my father, who’s pretty old, but in good health....   [View Profile]

My name is Eerdenggaowa, I am an ordinary herdswoman, and I am a long-time borrower of microloans. There are four people in our family. Although two of my sons have graduated from university, they have not been able to f...   [View Profile]

We also now have a son attending junior high school and doing pretty well in his studies I'd like to send him to a better school for his education so that he doesn't have to stay in the farming village like my generation...   [View Profile]

I am a common peasant woman, who lives in Inner Mongolia. There are four people at home in my family. Both my children are in university right now. My son Sulide (“majestic”) is in his final semester while my daughter Su...   [View Profile]

My name is Menggen Tuya, and I am 38 years old. There are five people in my family. My 14-year-old son, Shen Si, is still at elementary school, and my step parents are both in their 60s and very healthy. I am a past reci...   [View Profile]