MienDeGraeve    Aug 20, 2013

Dear lenders,
Originally Henri Nabolle planned to start repaying his loan on March 25. Due to the problems he explained in the comment below he has chosen to reschedule his loan. His 1st repayment was then due on June 25, but till today his repayment calendar is empty... Although the 2nd loan of Henri was still relatively small I have tried to find solutions for this situation all the time during the past months. I'd like to share these efforts with you and I am still hoping to find a final solution.
Although my meetings with Henri in the past have always been very positive (see comments below about our visit to his pig farm) I've found out that communication has become much more difficult after he took out his second loan. The rescheduling on May 21 was the result of many many phone calls, to Henri, to his community leader, to a friend of his who is also a Zidisha borrower. Sometimes I was able to speak to Henri and then it was clear that he was having troubles (he has been in hospital with a serious problem with his eyes). Sometimes he refused all communication. I was happy when he finally rescheduled his loan and thought this would give him a chance to recover. But once the new repayment date arrived, the communication problems just started all over again. Henri refused to pick up his phone, didn't respond to my messages, and the same was true for the calls of his community leader and his friend. The friend even visited the former workspace (painters workshop) of Henri but nobody seems to have seen or heard him since a long time. All this time I have assured Henri and his contacts that Zidisha was willing to negotiate a solution but that we just wanted to have some information about his situation. The application of Henri dates from before the time that we asked for the numbers of family members and neighbors, so I can't contact any more people. As a last option I have called the former loan officer of Henri today, who promised to try and get in touch with him and to keep me posted. I will keep you posted as soon as I have more news. I just wanted to make sure that you know that we haven't forgotten about Henri and that we're still hopeful to find a solution that suits both Henri and his lenders.
Thank you very much for your understanding,
Mien
Client Relationship Manager for Zidisha in Burkina Faso

Pingwinde Henri    May 21, 2013

Bonjour a tous et a toute vraiment je suis très désolé de ne pouvoir payer mes remboursement a temps , car ma famille étaient tous malades que j'ai eu a dépensé tous ce que j'avais pour prendre ma responsabilité de chef de famille , mais je vous promet que d'ici m'a période de grâce redemandé je vais payer sans exception

Pingwinde Henri    Feb 15, 2013

Bonjour a tous et a toutes vraiment je suis tres content que j'ai penser a faire un autre commentaire qui prouve que je suis tres satisfait pour tous ce que ZIDISHA a pu faire pour moi comme Mien la dit le samedi passer je les a amené moi et mes dex colleges et Mien qui a acepté nous accompagnez a all' voir notres projets de porcs comme vous meme vous l'avez constaté comment sont les porcs et c'est tous les porcs qui y etaient la a la maison donc les autres etaient en divagation comme ont n'a pas assez de moyen pour pouvoir les fermé a l'intrieur de leurs maison donc ce qui fait que ont n'a pas pu les prendrent tous les photos . Mais je crois que un jour ou l'autre comme ya ZIDISHA qui s'occupent de nous je croit que ca va allé vraiment les preteurs qui nous pretent l'argent vraiment merci a vous car grace vous ZIDISHA sera tres connu en Afrique

Pingwinde Henri    Feb 5, 2013

Hello to all of Zidisha's members! As Mien De Grave said, I am very happy for everything that Zidisha has done for me. Turns out that I preferred investing into hog breeding instead of art. Now I am all set up to breed hogs and we are a team of 3 people.

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Bnjour a tous et a toutes les membres de ZIDISHA comme elle a dit Mien De Grave vraiment je suis tres content pour tous ce que Zidisha a fait pour j'ai preferez investir dans la porcotiere que dans l'art maintenant je suis installé a povoir elevevé mes porcs on fait equipe et nous somme 3 personne

MienDeGraeve    Feb 3, 2013

Hi! Henri invited me to visit his pig project and we traveled to Sapone yesterday, together with two of his friends and one new pig! Actually these two friends and Henri have put their funds together to start the project. They already have a dozen pigs in the village now and the one we added yesterday is a special race (male) breeding pig. As soon as the three 'associates' have raised enough money they'll add a female to start breeding their own high quality pigs. A friend living in the village is taking care of the pigs on a daily basis and Henri and/or his friends travel to the village at least every two weeks to follow up and to provide food for the animals (because it is a blend of several products it is hard to find the food in the village or around). I'll add some of the pictures I made yesterday. Enjoy!

MienDeGraeve    Jan 22, 2013

Hi everyone,
I was a little surprised when I read Henri's comment about the small pig farm he started with the help of his Zidisha loan but I talked to him on the phone yesterday evening and he explained that he preferred investing in an extra business rather than in paint and materials as he announced before. This extra business will help him during the periods with less tourism (actually tourism in Burkina Faso is suffering quite heavily from the crisis in Mali). He created the pig farm in the village Sapone, at 35 kilometers of Ouagadougou. If I get the chance to travel to Sapone during the next weeks, I'll make sure to visit his new business and to make some pictures. Thank you for your support, Mien

Pingwinde Henri    Jan 21, 2013

Hello everyone. Really I was very happy for the loan that you Zidisha provided me with. Thanks to this amount, I was able to start a small pig farm which I named "La Porcotiere." Really I am very happy that I do not know how to explain. Really Godspeed!

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Bonjour a tous et a toute vraiment j'ai été très content pour le cout de mais que vous ZIDISHA ma accordé grâce a cette somme j'ai eu a crée une élevage de porcs que j'ai nommé la porcotiere vraiment je suis très content que je ne sais pas comment expliqué vraiment bon vent