BlueOcean Energy and Technology Services is a subsidiary of BlueOcean Nigeria, an organisation that was incorporated in 2007 and targeted specifically at the base of the pyramid (BoP) markets in Nigeria. In view of the huge potential that the company identified for energy services, especially in rural areas, BlueOcean Energy started business in 2011 as […]
Ghassan – Food Retail (Ain Al Helwi, Lebanon)
Ghassan is a 48-year-old married man and a father of five children. He has owned a convenience store since 2003, selling various products from foodstuffs to candies, beverages and detergents. Ghassan has faced financial hardships due to lack of capital, but with his determination and the support of his wife who helps him in the […]
Juan Pablo O L – Service, Construction (Catamayo, Ecuador)
Juan Pablo is a carpenter and welder. He is 26 years old and single, and lives in the town of Catamayo. He learned carpentry through practice as a teenager, and later studied welding and industrial mechanics at an artisan center. He learned how to manufacture windows, doors, gates and railings among other items. Juan Pablo […]
Kodjovi A V – Food Retail (Bè-kpota, Lome, Togo)
Kodjovi is a shopkeeper from Bè-kpota in the Togolese capital Lome. He is 33 and married but does not have any children yet. Kodjovi’s sells mainly maize, rice and sugar. He buys the staple grains from northern Togo from particular villages where he has established relationships with farmers, then brings them back to sell in […]
Sitha C – Farming (Batambang Province, Cambodia)
Sitha is 38 years old and married with four children, aged between 16 and 5 years old. All of them are enrolled at school. They live in the Battambang province, where he farms dry season rice in around one hectare that can produce around three tons of rice. In addition, he has another plot of […]
Rosalino P S – Farming (Catamayo, Ecuador)
Rosalino is a farmer from the district of San Francisco in Catamayo. He initially started farming helping his parents and married when he was 28. His wife later died of cancer, and he was left in debt related to her medical treatments, which he eventually succeeded in repaying through his farming activities. Don Rosalino now […]
Justine O – Retail, Health (Pobè, Benin)
Justine is married woman, mother of 3 children, two of them still living at home. Her husband is a motorcycle taxi driver. Justine is 52 and never went to school or received any training, but since 1994 she has been running a business. She prepares and sells “tisane”, a type of tea consumed widely in the community. […]
Mamadou K – Retail (Avédji, Lomé, Togo)
Mamadou is 49 and married with a two year old child. He lives with his family at Avédji. He runs a small shop called PETIT MARCHE DE LIBREVILLE, which specializes in food items, which he buys at the large markets of Lomé. He sought a loan purchase additional supplies and expand his business, which is […]
Ablavi M O – Retail (Atakpame, Togo)
Ablavi is a young woman of 30 who has 3 children. Her eldest child is 8 and her youngest is 3. Her two older children are enrolled in school. Ablavi lives in the district of Elisee 2000 in Atakpame with her husband. She runs a restaurant in her neighborhood district which caters to students and […]
Lucita R – Food Processing (Talisay, Cebu, Philippines)
Lucita is 54 years and has 3 dependents: one child and two grandchildren. Her husband, Danielo is a 43 year old businessman.The family lives in Cebu province. For the last 15 years, Lucita has been managing a dried fish business selling fish to wholesale dealers and market vendors. She employs eight workers to assist her. […]
