Name of beneficiary: Keltum Abdi
Age: 39
Woreda: Guba
Kebele: Bamza
Village: yageter
Livelihood/ occupation: Farme

Miss Keltum Abdi is 39 years old of Abay Mesino self help group treasure has two children (son and daughter who are in school of grade 3 and 5 respectively) and her husband is died. Keltum is living in Bamza Kebele of Yageter village and her main livelihood is farming activity and herding two goats. Before she joined the Abay mesino self help group which is working on small scale irrigation around Abay river, she cover all daily expense of family conception and school fee for children by collecting wood for sell and annually she harvest 4 quintal of sorghum from this product 75% is stored for family conception and 25% of it is supplied for sell. Since the self help group established in her local kebele she benefited from loan, donkey and product of vegetables and it create good opportunity work.

She used the donkey for her own purpose two days per month according to group member agreement to transport wood, water and others. She received four pieces of banana seeds of incentive from Abay mesino self help group farm. The banana plants are growing up and expected to harvest in the coming new Ethiopian year which is estimated 800 birr of money value. Her family had not access of vegetables product for food and it was not available around there but now days her family is eating Varity of vegetables weekly based. Miss Keltum borrowed four hundred (400) birr from SHG to expand her farm land from 1 to 3 ½ hectare and purchased seeds (sorghum, ground net and sesame). She signed the agreement to repay the loan on October, 2014. Keltum is also managing her own farm in good manner and actively participating in Abay messino self help group activity, her next year business plan is to plant oil seeds vastly on six hectare of land and donate one hectare farm land for her SHG to support farm land expansion program.