Name: Nusrat Sultana
Home Town: Manzoor Colony, Karachi, Pakistan
Profession: Tailor
Loan: Rs 25,000

NUSRAT SULTANA lives in Manzoor Colony with her four children and supports her family by running a clothes shop from home. She takes clothing orders from her customers and buys cloth wholesale from Tower Market. Her customers are very happy with her services as wholesales prices are lower than market prices and Nusrat saves them the hassle of going to the market. She recently took a loan of Rs 25,000 from Tameer in order to expand her business and now sends her material to Hyderabad for embroidery and other adornments.

This additional service has increased her number of customers and she is earning more. “I am happy that I got the loan so quickly as I already had the idea of sending the cloth to Hyderabad but did not have the means.” With the extra income, Nusrat wants to help her son open a dentist shop in Manzoor Colony – he is currently studying dentistry under the expertise of Dr Richard Hu in Saddar – and she has plans to open her own boutique