{"id":1215,"date":"2021-04-02T18:50:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hkcfimu.cluster028.hosting.ovh.net\/?page_id=1215"},"modified":"2021-04-02T18:51:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:51:30","slug":"success-story-andrews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.microsfere.org\/index.php\/success-story-andrews\/","title":{"rendered":"Success Story &#8211; Andrews"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1215\" class=\"elementor elementor-1215\" 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-255c6b1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"255c6b1\" 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-0f6444d dark-block\" data-id=\"0f6444d\" 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-8134958 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8134958\" 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-full wp-image-1218 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/hkcfimu.cluster028.hosting.ovh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2010-07-Andrews-Asare-2ter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.microsfere.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2010-07-Andrews-Asare-2ter.jpg 198w, http:\/\/www.microsfere.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2010-07-Andrews-Asare-2ter-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/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;\">Andrews<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3><div align=\"justify\"><div align=\"justify\"><div align=\"justify\"><div align=\"justify\"><div align=\"justify\">Andrews, 39 years old, is a native of the village of Kengen (Amansuri wetland) where he lives with his wife and their three children. He owns and operates a small licensed drugstore, which is his exclusive business.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div>Though his intention is to move to a big city, where economic opportunities are more ample, he says he wants to stay in Kengen if he can manage to realize his dream for a micro-enterprise: he wants to open a wholesale drugstore point, where small dealers will come and purchase in order to sell in retail.\u00a0<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div>According to Andrews, the capital required to set up the wholesale drugstore amounts to about 600 GHC (300 \u20ac). So far he has participated to two loan cycles in the context of the Microsfere project, and in the 2nd cycle he received a loan of 250 GHC (125 \u20ac).\u00a0<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div>He used this money to buy medicine at large quantities, which allowed him to negotiate better prices with the providers. Before joining the Microsfere project he never had sufficient amounts of cash, and was forced to make purchases in small quantities, with higher prices.\u00a0<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div>In terms of the Microsfere project\u2019s impacts on the natural resources, Andrews says that there is a decrease in improper natural resource use, but claims that there are margins for improvement, since people still occasionally cut raffia sticks from the wetland for construction purposes, and do also eat sea turtle eggs when they stumble across a nest on the beach.\u00a0<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-16a2bb3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"16a2bb3\" 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>Andrews Andrews, 39 years old, is a native of the village of Kengen (Amansuri wetland) where he lives with his wife and their three children. He owns and operates a small licensed drugstore, which is his exclusive business.\u00a0Though his intention is to move to a big city, where economic opportunities are more ample, he says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.microsfere.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.microsfere.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.microsfere.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.microsfere.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.microsfere.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.microsfere.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"http:\/\/www.microsfere.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1215\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.microsfere.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}