Wokai Member: Clayton

My name is Jin Fengrong. I am 39 years old. My 16 year old daughter is in junior high school and my husband is a driver. My husband’s family was big — he had four siblings — and life at home was very difficult. My husban...   [View Profile]

My name is Wudebala, which means Chrysantheum flower. I am 26 years old and have been married for 8 years. My husband and I have an 8 year old child who is attending elementary school. My family home is in Naqitai Villag...   [View Profile]

My name is Siqincaobude and I am 40 years old. I live in a remote village with serious desertification. There are only a few ”mu” (650 m2) of non-irrigated farmland, which is not enough to support a family. Therefore, af...   [View Profile]

My name is Nuorenqiqige, which means sunflower. I am 34 years old. My family lives in Baixinggacha (village) which lies in the suburban districts of Daban town. When I married, my husband's family had no other family pro...   [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 Zhao Guihua. I'm 35 years old. When my husband and I got married 10 years ago, both of our families were too poor to buy a flat so we rented, lived frugally and taking odd jobs to make a living. Later, using w...   [View Profile]

My name is Huda Gula, I have already borrowed microloans. I am 41 years old, my family has 3 members, my 16 year old daughter goes to high school. In 2000, I have been working for two years in a factory for Gongre Corpor...   [View Profile]

My name is Mongachichige, it means "silver flower". I'm thirty-three years old, and I'm a herdswoman. There are three people in my family - me, my husband and my daughter, who is already attending elementary school. I li...   [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]

I am an ordinary woman from community no. 2 in village no. 11 in the town of Shuangsheng, Yilong county. My name is Cheng Rong and with my husband I have two children, a son and a daughter. My husband are working long-te...   [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]

I’m a woman from Shuangsheng Village, 1st community, and my name is Xiong Yurong. I’m thirty years old and my family has 3 members. I have a lively and adorable daughter; she’s quite lovely. A few years ago, my husband a...   [View Profile]

My name is Jiang Zhitong. I live in Shuangsheng town, Xiangtan village. My family has six members. My five daughters are already grown up and married. Because I don't have a son, three of my daughters stayed at home. Now...   [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 Shen Yuxian, and I am 34 years old. My family lives in the community of Fangba, which is located in a remote mountainous region. We don’t have any sources of income besides growing crops, and our family has al...   [View Profile]

My name is Hudagula and I am a trusted long-term client of microfinance I am 42 years old and my 17 year old daughter is at high school. I started working at the mechanical department of a heat supply company, but after ...   [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 E’erdundagula, I am 40 years old and have a family of three. I have a bright and adorable daughter, and we live in Suaili Village in Daban County. Our family only has 20 Mu of dry land, ten or so sheep, six co...   [View Profile]

My name is Jin Xiang, and I'm thirty-nine years old. My family has three people, including my sixteen year old son who is studying in middle school. He enjoys studying the "matouqin," (a small string instrument). He is b...   [View Profile]

My name is Wuyunqimuge and I am 42 years old. We are a family of four. The oldest is my father-in-law and the youngest is my 16 year old son. I married into my husband's family 17 years ago and they lived in a very remot...   [View Profile]

I have used microcredit for two years and am especially proud not only of my timely attendance at microcredit meetings but also my timely loan repayment. The microcredit process is simple, convenient, and timely, so I ap...   [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 Sarentonglaga, I am 49 years old with a family of three. My husband is very sincere and hard working. Other than working in our fields, he also learned basic mechanics to help fix crop machineries and motorcyc...   [View Profile]

My name is Wuertuye and I'm 32 years old. We are a very happy family of three including our lively and adorable son. When I was attending junior high my family situation wasn't very good. To enable my elder brother to co...   [View Profile]

My name is Renqimuge, I am 60 years old. My family lives in Daban town, Baolige Gacha, Wuxing village (Duguilong). I have been borrowing microloans for 11 years. During those 11 years the microloans helped me to improve ...   [View Profile]

My name is Yi Rihu, and I am an ordinary 30-year-old resident of the village of Daban, blessed with a family of three. My nine year old son, named Hailun, is in the third grade at the local elementary school. He has been...   [View Profile]

My name is Wuyun Muge and I am 41 years old. My family has 4 members, including my 72 year old father-in-law and my 15 year old son. 16 years ago I married into my husband's family. Because my husband's family lives in a...   [View Profile]

My name is Xu Chunli and I am a seasoned user of microloans. Due to the financial crisis, my business in Balin stones didn't go very well during the last few years with a lot of unsold stock and this affected our living ...   [View Profile]

My name is Liu Xiaoli. I live in Xijiao Village in Daban Township and am a return borrower of microloans. My husband works in a different area and is rarely at home. Our major family income is the money my husband earns ...   [View Profile]

My name is Dou Da Gu La, age 34. I'm an ordinary herdswoman in the Daban township of Baixing village in Inner Mongolia. I've been married with a family for more than 10 years, and my 14 year-old daughter is now in middle...   [View Profile]

My name is Wei Xiuxia. First of all, I would like to thank “Wokai” for their loan support. Through their help, my noodle shop has continuously been managed pretty well. Although our income is not very high, as an old mar...   [View Profile]

My name is Hudagula, and I am 46 years old. My family has four members. I used to be a shop assistant with a supply and marketing firm. After the business went bankrupt in 1991, I became a jobless vagrant. My husband wor...   [View Profile]

My name is Hasiqimuge, I am 43 years old from Daban town. In 1992, when I got married, my husband's family was very poor and gave us only 5 mu of land. For many years, we lived on very little. In 2001, my husband and I m...   [View Profile]

Due to many years of drought, my village has not seen much of a harvest. Our land is indescribably dry. In order to survive, especially to change our impoverished conditions, we villagers are always looking for opportuni...   [View Profile]

My name is Wuyuncandan and I am a typical herder. I live in Husitai Village of Daban County and my family supports itself primarily with income from raising livestock and farming on a little piece of land. I have been ap...   [View Profile]

My name is Jin Mei and this year I'm 36 years old. After getting married, my husband and I moved away to work because we were very poor and did not own any livestock. In 2005 we returned to our village and used the money...   [View Profile]

My name is Wu Li, and I am 31 years old. I live in District 7 of Xinhua village, in Zhouhe town. I have three children, the oldest is 3, and the youngest just turned 1 and a half. We are definitely over the limit on chil...   [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]

I am an ordinary farmer and my husband was a doctor. We ran a health clinic for over twenty years. We had two daughters and a son. We were a happy family. Unfortunately, several years ago, my husband passed away and the ...   [View Profile]

I am from Jinshi Village, within the Shuansheng township of Yilong County, Sichuan. My name is Yang Yucai and I am 65 years old. Twenty years ago, when I was in my early 40s, my wife died from an illness. At that time, I...   [View Profile]

My name is Ariguna and I am an ordinary herdswoman in Xilamulugacha in the town of Daban. I had a few years of schooling in town, but I married a man from an area that is plagued by sandstorms. It is a tough place to liv...   [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 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 Zhangcuiying, I am 45 years old and of Han ethnicity. I live in the town of Banzhendushi with my husband, his parents, and two sons. My husband is an only child. Since we were married 20 years ago, we have alw...   [View Profile]

My name is Rao Zhenfeng and I live in community no. 4 in the village of Pingguo, Zhouhe township. My family consists of four people. My wife who is doing some farming at home and my two children. The eldest are graduatin...   [View Profile]

I have been running a Mongolian tea house for several years with the support of a microloan and its profitability has increased year after year. With increases in income, our family situation has improved significantly t...   [View Profile]

My name is Narentuya. There are three people in my family, and my son is a freshman in college. I am an previous borrower of microloans. My family's main income source is animal husbandry. But the continuous drought and ...   [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’m an ordinary woman from Shuangsheng Town in Yilong County. My name is Cheng Rong and there are four of us in our family, including a son and a daughter. My husband is not at home most of the year- he is out working to...   [View Profile]

My name is Xirenqimuge, and I am an old micro-loan borrower. There are four members in my family. My husband is in the transportation industry, and my two beautiful daughters are in high school. In 1992, the company I wa...   [View Profile]

My name is Xiong Yurong and I live in the residential district of the town Shuangsheng with my husband and two children. Some time ago I was engaged in a small clothing store, but the business was not very good. After so...   [View Profile]