Since interacting with the project, I have been recording my income and expenses on a regular basis

D.Enkhtaivan is one of our successful business clients. She is a single mother with seven children and has worked as a cook at the Baganuur District Center for Children’s cafeteria since 2000.

   Since interacting with the project, I have been recording my income and expenses on a regular basis

Since the cafeteria was shut down, she had tried to run various businesses on her own, but to no avail. Since 2006, she has worked as a security guard for a private company and even ran a small shop. However, the turnover in the business was low and the turnover was declining due to her many children. At that time, after meeting with the business consultant of the GER Initiative project to discuss her business problems, she decided to grow vegetables and placed an order for the SEED program’s seeds. After that, she participated in the project's vegetable planting and seedling training, and in May 2007, received a MNT 300,000 loan from the project to plant vegetables and started planting vegetables on 60 acres of land. Thus, on the basis of training and obtaining a loan to grow vegetables, she laid the foundation of the canteen of the current seniors' recreation and leisure center. Thus, the project's Loan and Consumption Savings training provided a certain amount of knowledge on how to properly use the loan and keep records. Currently, the cafeteria has a daily subscription and a monthly sales revenue of 600,000 MNT.

She also hires a single mother as an assistant for MNT 108,000 per month. In addition to serving food not only to the elderly, but also selling food to the medical staff on shifts, it has greatly increased their business income.

Not only did she get loans from the project, but she also received a variety of information, contract templates, and newspapers, which greatly helped her business.

D.Enkhtaivan preparing food in the cafeteria

Client feedback:

Entrepreneurs face various challenges in running their businesses. I am very grateful to the GER Initiative team for solving my problems. Since interacting with the project, I have been able to keep track of my income and expenses, which has made it easier to communicate with the bank and control myself.