Her small grocery store is found when passing Ranwala on the Kegalle-Colombo Road. Even when we stepped into her small, but well-maintained grocery store, she was attending to her customers. This is what she told us as she got some free time:
” I’m W. Mallika. A few years ago I started a small tea shop here on a very small scale. When I had run the business for some time, I started looking for an opportunity to develop my business a little further, and I came to know about HNB FINANCE. I joined the Galigamuwa, Bisowela Center of the Kegalle Branch and obtained the first loan under its Microfinance Credit facility to develop my tea shop into a grocery store. Today, I have been able to run this grocery store quite well because I got the opportunity to get the loans I needed without any difficulty. Now, my expectation is to get a housing loan from HNB FINANCE and start a small hotel attached to this grocery store. Now we can set our hand on any business without any fear because of the confidence we have in our financial partner that guides us towards success.”
W. Mallika
Kegalle.
