First Customer of the week for 2016! - Ayisha Bengal

Mrs. Bengal is our first customer of the week for January, but what is more special is that she is not a Microfinance customer but one of the customers in our business coaching program. During the break of business coaching Ayisha started to design bags. These bags she had produced in China and presented us the results. On top of being in our business program, Ayisha is still in high school following an administrative program.

Way to go Ayisha Bengal ! We would love to see more!

Beautiful colours in the medina of Tangier!

We made it to the entrance of the medina. First we were in an open market and I kept thinking this is not the medina. I have seen the souks in Tunisia. This can’t be it and then we saw the gate. Excited as I am I enter! Beautiful colours everywhere! The fruit is shining. It looks like they polished the fruits… Olive vendors, spice vendors, goat cheese vendors, many small business. Omg this is my wahala ! I wondered if they all had a microcredit to start up their business. I don’t see too many women in bars, restaurants in town but surprisingly here are many female vendors. Chahine from APEFE who only supports female business in Morocco tells me in the Northern part of the country; the women are the business owners. I think he is right if I look around in the media but they don’t seem young. I will have to investigate a little bit more on that. I continue walking all the way to the fish market and back. I did hold my breath the entire way and the head of the goats kind a made me sick. I hate to take a picture of it not because of animal cruelty but just to understand the culture. Nonetheless, I loved walking around the medina. Chahine on the other hand was happy to leave the medina for the open Air Parisian style looking streets. I have to find the Kasbah!