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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 Siri Guleng, which means “clever.” I’m 34 years old and I only just got married 3 years ago. I have a very lively and adorable son named Jin Peng. My parents-in-law also live with us. They’re health isn’t very...   [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]

There are 4 people in my family. We moved to Malaqinxin Village in 2000. At that time, we were allotted 3 Chinese acres of arable land. We had been herdsmen our whole lives, so we did not know any farming techniques. The...   [View Profile]

My name is Alatanqimuge and I am 36 years old. I am from Chifeng in Inner Mongolia. My husband and I have a son, who is at junior high school. We both grew up in a rural area living the life of nomads. Despite being youn...   [View Profile]

My name is Aogengaowa. I live in Daban County, Shijiazigacha village. We are a happy family of four, with two remarkable sons. The oldest graduated from Inner Mongolia’s Shifan University. The other, although not having ...   [View Profile]

My name is Zhou Wei, and I am 35 years old. I live with family in Baiyan village, near Zhouhe County. In the past, I used to work away from home; however, both my children and my parents now need someone to look after th...   [View Profile]

My name is Bayasula, it means joy. I am 23 years old and live in Inner Mongolia. There are four people in my family. My parents both live in the pastoral areas. I graduated from college last year and my younger brother i...   [View Profile]

My name is Deng Junming, and I live in Pon-Lai 6 Society in Ma-An town. I’m 43 years old, and I have a wife and two kids. Because we live in the mountains where droughts occur often, our lives are very difficult. In 2003...   [View Profile]

My name is Xie Haihong, I am 23 years old and there are 4 people in my family, we live in a village near Daban county. I have a son and a daughter, my daughter has just turned two, her name is Ke Xin. My family is very p...   [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]

Hello. My name is Wuren Qiqige. My name means clever and artful. I am 31 and have a little rambunctious boy who is 10 yrs old. His name is Qi Chou and he is in second grade. We are a family of four living in Daban prefec...   [View Profile]

My name is GuiLeiSuHua, which means Almond Flower. I have four people in my family, including a son and a daughter. Due to the annual droughts in northern China, desertification has continued to become a severe problem. ...   [View Profile]

My name is Zhou You, and I am 22 years old. I live in Zhouhexiang village, in the Qishan mountain community. Because my family was poor, I wasn't able to finish my studies and instead left home with my parents to find wo...   [View Profile]

Our family of four lives in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia. My name is Taogetaomula, and I am fifty-three years old, and I have a son and a daughter, both of whom have had to leave town to continue school. My son graduated last...   [View Profile]

My name is Sarengerile, which means moonlight. I have a family of three, including an adorable, lively daughter of 16. She has loved to draw since she was young, and has received numerous awards for her drawings. I am a ...   [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 Lin Minghu, I am 55 years old and I live in Fangbei Village in Zhouhe Township.I have a son and daughter who are both already married and have started working. My son, the youngest, only got married last year....   [View Profile]

My name is Chasunqiqige, which means "snowflake" in Mongolian, and I am 31 years old. I have been married nearly 10 years. I have a son who is currently in elementary school. He is often a source of joy, but also drives ...   [View Profile]

My name is Qiqige, and I am a long-time borrower of microloans. I live with my family in rural Inner Mongolia. My family's main source of income comes from raising cows and sheep. In recent years, I have used microloans ...   [View Profile]

My name is Wurengaowa, I will be 39 this year and the three of us who make up my family live in Chaganxiren Village near Daban Township. About 10 or more years ago, when I had just married into my husband’s family, peopl...   [View Profile]

My name is Yu Ming and I have a family of three. My daughter is in primary school. She does well and she is also very sensible. I am from the village of Hongqi in Daban Country. When I got married I moved to the village ...   [View Profile]

I am an ordinary farmer and while I was growing up my family made a living through planting crops. Twenty years ago, in order to start saving, my husband and I moved to Sugu, a pasture land village not too far from our h...   [View Profile]

My name is Siqinqimuge, and I live in Daban county, in the village of Baoligegacha. I am an ordinary herder and I have been using microloans for 11 years now. Eleven years ago, our family's life was very difficult. We li...   [View Profile]

My name is Hasirile and I am 42 years old. I am an ordinary herdsman living in Gacha and there are three people in our family. Both me and my husband are illiterate, so getting our son educated is a dream for both of us....   [View Profile]

My name is Song Guifang and I'm 53. My nineteen year old son is in high school and he gets excellent grades. He is my greatest pride, and I invest all my time and energy to providing for him. I am a primary school teache...   [View Profile]

My name is Bai Hua, I'm 32 years old and a herder. When I was a child, my family was poor and I have many brothers and sisters- if you ate a meal in the morning you wouldn't have one in the afternoon. Now I have a happy ...   [View Profile]

My name is Xurenqimuge, I am 55 years old, and I am a herdswoman from Hongqi village, near Daban town. In 2000, the government department arranged for our whole village to be relocated to today's Hongqi village. However,...   [View Profile]

My name is Zhou Zhongxian, and I am 55 years old. I live in Baiyan village, near Zhouhe county, with my wife. My son and his wife left home to work and to make money, leaving us old folks behind. In order to improve our ...   [View Profile]

My name is Fu Yazun. I’m 30 years old this year. My home is in Sichuan. I live with my husband and my two twins who just turned five. Because we do not have much money, we live in a space that’s less than 30 square meter...   [View Profile]

My name is Hai Tang, I am 29 years old and there are three people in my family. My daughter is eight and she is in elementary school. We live in Risu village. I have been a user of microcredit since 2005. The loan amount...   [View Profile]

My name is Hasituya, I am 56 years old. I live in a village with my husband about 60 miles from Dabanyu. He used to be a doctor in the nearby hospital and he is now retired. I have been taking micro-finance loans for 10 ...   [View Profile]

My name is Bairisandan, 42 years old. We have three generations living together in my household- we all live in the village of Derisugazha, near Daban. My mother passed away when I was child, so and my two younger brothe...   [View Profile]

My name is Jin Xiang, and I am a herder in Gazha Village, Daban Town. I have two sons and a daughter, who are all married and have started their own ventures. Now that our children have left home, it’s just my husband an...   [View Profile]

My name is Tuya, I am 42 years old with a family of 3, and I am a herdswoman from the town of Daban. In 2000, I moved from the desert to the Hongqigacha village. At that time we owned 5 cows. When we were building our ho...   [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 Narengaowa and I'm 31. There are three people in my family, and we all moved to Daban town over four years ago. My husband is a driver and I sell clothes at my store. In the past, my family made a living by fa...   [View Profile]

My name is Hasi Tuya, and I'm 30 years old. My family has 3 members: my daughter is 6 years old and is still in kindergarten, my husband is a traffic police officer. In 1995, after I graduated high school, I went home to...   [View Profile]

My name is Chunmei and I am 32 years old. I am a herdswoman from Daban town, Malaqinxin village. My family has four members. Since I married I've lived with my husband's mother. Some years ago her health was still good, ...   [View Profile]

There are three people in our family. We have a very cute 6 year old daughter who is very clever and loves to sing and dance. We used to live together in the countryside but in 2001 we moved to Da Ban, a small town, beca...   [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 Mudan. I am from Hongqi village in Daban County. I am 32 years old. I have a family of five, including my in-laws and my adorable three-year old son. However, my son regularly gets sick. My in-laws are also no...   [View Profile]

My name is Hasigerile, and I am 40 years old. My daughter is currently at the county city attending middle school. When we originally moved to Hongqi Gacha, we encountered many difficulties associated with the a move; in...   [View Profile]

My name is Lu Chunyang, from Heilongjiang province. My wife is from Yilong, in Sichuan. Because my wife couldn't stand the climate up north, we left my home relatively quickly to find work in Guangdong. Now, we have retu...   [View Profile]

My name is Hasigaowa, and I am 48 years old. I live in Daban county, in the village of Yulige. My son is currently attending university. I am a long time borrower of micro-loans; and have been using them for 11 years now...   [View Profile]

I am Gao Peng, my family lives in Fuxing town, Hujiaqiao village, 4th tier city. I am 23 years old. Because I have many siblings, I could not study much. After I graduated from junior middle school I stopped going to sch...   [View Profile]

My name is Zhou Jiasheng, and I am 56 years old. My family lives in a remote mountain village, where the conditions really aren't good. My two sons do migrant work, and rarely come home: it's only at New Years that we al...   [View Profile]

I have already borrowed microloans. My name is Wang Zhenrong, I am 45 years old and I come from an ordinary peasant family from Daban town, Hongxing village. My family has four members. My son has finished university and...   [View Profile]

My name is Lin Pinfan, I am 54 years old, my family lives in Xinhua, 4th society. My family has 6 members. Because we live in a mountain area, the distance to the market town is also very far. Therefore the living condit...   [View Profile]

My name is Zhang Jundian. I live in a village in ZhouHe County. I am 40 years old and I have a family of 4 people. My family’s financial situation is not very good and I count on my stone-cutting labor to support my fami...   [View Profile]

My name is Wang Ruixue, I'm 35 years old, and there are three members of my family, including my 12 year old son who is now attending elementary school. My husband and I both originally worked for a transportation compan...   [View Profile]

My name is Dong Mei, and I am 33 years old. I have a family of 3. When my husband and I first got married, we did not have our own place. We lived with our in-laws in a three-room home and we were poor. Hoping for a plac...   [View Profile]

My name is Wurensandan, I am 48 years old, and have a family of 6. I moved to the village of Hongqizhaga in 2000, following a government policy which relocated villagers to preserve the environment in certain areas. The ...   [View Profile]

My name is Siriguleng, which means "intelligent". I am 51 years old, and I live in Daban town Shijiazigacha village. When I was little, I had a lot of siblings, and our lives were very difficult. After I was married, my ...   [View Profile]

There are three people in my family. I have a 7 year-old son, who is very naughty and loves to sing very much. My husband often goes away for work and stays out of town for long periods of time, leaving me to do the hous...   [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 He Qi and I live Qunli village, near Shuangsheng town in Yilong County. I’m 58 years old and my wife is 55. We’ve raised 6 kids, and they’ve all grown up and have married by now. Our burden is much smaller tha...   [View Profile]

My name is Wu Dinghong. My family has six people. Before we took out our first micro-loan, our family relied on planting crops to make a living. We had to support both our parents and our children. Life was extremely dif...   [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 Hasichaolu, and I'm 43 years old. I am supporting a family of three. My husband is often out and about, working as a driver. My child is in university. We have been living in Daban for nearly six years. At the...   [View Profile]

Hello. My name is Li Guiqin, and I'm 56 this year. There are only 2 of us in our family. My husband has been working away from home for some time, so I've been left to myself to operate a small business to make ends meet...   [View Profile]

My name is Hasigerile, and I am 41 years old. My daughter is attending middle school at the county seat. We encountered many difficulties when moving to Hongqi Village. In order to make it easier for our daughter to atte...   [View Profile]

My name is Xiong Min, I am 24 years old and I have a family of 5, my parents, my wife and a 1 year old son. My home if 5 km away from the town, but farmland is scarce. After high school I worked for 2 years outside, but ...   [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 Xu Mengsheng, and I live in the third district of Liangshan village, in Zhouhe town. I am 61 years old. I have two sons; the older one is married, so only the younger one is left at home. In order to help my s...   [View Profile]

My name is Ren Shuhua, I am 50 years old and I am a farmer in Taobai village near Daban county. I am an old recipient of microloans. There are five people in my family, I want my children to by successful in the future. ...   [View Profile]

My name is Deng Yong and I am 28 years old this year. I am from a village in Sichuan. I am the oldest in my family, with a younger brother and sister who are both still in school. My family has always been quite poor, bu...   [View Profile]

My name is Lin Zhiming. The six people in my family include my parents, my wife and my children. My family is quite big compared to other families, which means that there is an extra burden on my shoulders. Day to day li...   [View Profile]

My name is Li Xiulan, I am 49 years old and live in the village of Guoyuan, near the town of Shuangsheng. I have a family of 6: My husband, daughter-in-law, daughter and granddaughter. We have a happy life living togethe...   [View Profile]

My name is Rao Zhengfeng. I live in Zhouhexiang Pingguo village. There are four people in my family. My wife cultivates the fields. Our oldest child will graduate from university this year. Our youngest just finished uni...   [View Profile]

My name is Xu Xiaojun and I live on Zhouhe Street. I am 36 years old. The burden on my family is great. My mother is old, and requires care. We have two children who have just started primary school. These are times when...   [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 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]

My name is Siqingaowa, I am 40 years old, and there are four people in my family. In the year 2000 we moved to Malaqinxin village where we live now. At that time we had 3 Mu of irrigated land. From generation to generati...   [View Profile]

My name is Zhao Xuewen, I am 37 years old, I live in Linlang 8th society. My family has 4 members, of my two children one goes to high school and one to junior middle school. In the street where we live I have rented a s...   [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 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 "Alatantuya," which means golden rays. I'm 40 years old. My family of four includes both young and old. We have been migrating and using microloans for many years now. My five years of experience with microfin...   [View Profile]

My name is Hudagula, I am 59-year-old herder living in the village of Hongqigazha, town of Daban. I once had a happy family - myself, my husband, and our three children. We only had a three-roomed mud-house with little l...   [View Profile]