{"id":1134,"date":"2021-04-02T18:28:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hkcfimu.cluster028.hosting.ovh.net\/?page_id=1134"},"modified":"2021-04-02T18:29:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:29:30","slug":"success-story-comfort","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.microsfere.org\/index.php\/success-story-comfort\/","title":{"rendered":"Success Story &#8211; Comfort"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1134\" class=\"elementor elementor-1134\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3b5721b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3b5721b\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-953b289 dark-block\" data-id=\"953b289\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6cfcc24 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6cfcc24\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"image-bordered size-medium wp-image-1137 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/hkcfimu.cluster028.hosting.ovh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2014-06-Comfort-AbabioTER-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.microsfere.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2014-06-Comfort-AbabioTER-300x267.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.microsfere.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2014-06-Comfort-AbabioTER.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p><h3><span style=\"color: #b5b682;\"><strong><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Comfort<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3><p>Comfort, 43, lives with her husband and three of her children in one of the Kakum communities. Her other three children live with relatives in Accra. She is a cocoa farmer along with her husband, and also produces food crops such as cassava, plantain and yam. Those products are used to feed the family, while any surplus is sold through her petty trading business.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the Microsfere project started in the area, she decided to join and diversify her activities, thus starting the petty trading business.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For her this business is quite important as it allows her to save; part of the savings are reinvested in the business, and part are used to cover the children&rsquo;s needs related to school, such as uniforms, books, shoes, etc.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comfort acknowledges that thanks to her participation in the Microsfere project she has managed to increase her revenues; she wishes though that the loan amount given were higher. In the last loan cycle she received 400 GHc (about 100 euro).<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c601607 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c601607\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"\/index.php\/success-stories\/\">Back to all success stories<\/a><\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comfort Comfort, 43, lives with her husband and three of her children in one of the Kakum communities. Her other three children live with relatives in Accra. She is a cocoa farmer along with her husband, and also produces food crops such as cassava, plantain and yam. 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