Aerobics & fitness

Entrepreneur

About Me

My names are Nicholas willigis muthomi.iam 39 years old,i hail from kulamawe village,Bulapesa location,Central division of Isiolo county in Kenya.Isiolo county is located in northern kenya and is classified as an semi desert with very little rainfall.its inhabitants are pastoralists i.e the Boran,Turkana,samburu and Somali who mainly deal with livestock such as Camel,sheep,cows and goats.no crop farming is undertaken in isiolo since the hot weather is quite unfavorable.

i completed my secondary education in 1995 and went to meru technical institute where i undertook Accountancy course (Kenya accountants technician certificate-up to Final level in 2002 which i excelled and advanced to Certified Public Accountant up to section 2 which i too excelled.unfortunately,i did not complete the whole C.P.A level since my mother being a single parent and having too many mouths to feed and cater for,could not afford to pay for the course which prompted me to terminate my accountancy studies.This left me so much depressed up almost to the point of breakdown.due to my condition my health deteriorated rapidly. i was taken to a counselor who advised me though he insisted on joining exercise classes to help cool my thoughts.Thats when i met a certain Taekwondo coach Master Mike who became both my trainer and my mentor.This made me heal my thoughts .I continued with Taekwondo which i excelled up to 2nd degree Black belt, and currently i am a Taekwondo, Aerobics and general physical fitness instructor.Born from a single unemployed mother.life has not been easy which made me not to complete the accountancy course up to the last level.i am 3rd born from a family of 5 children.
Iam married with 2 children,(all boys)my elder son is 10 years old and in standard 5 while my younger son is 7 years old and in standard 2.

My Business

I am a qualified Taekwondo and Aerobics instructor,holding a 2nd Dan Black belt in Taekwondo. I opened up a taekwondo gymnasium in Isiolo town know as ISIOLO RED TIGERS TAEKWONDO AND FITNESS CENTRE.It is the only physical fitness gymnasium in the entire county of isiolo.to help nurture young talent especially youths ad also targeting those with stressful and depressive conditions as it was in my case,since practice would keep their minds and body free from stressful thoughts.
But taekwondo alone did not cater for all categories of people,since Taekwondo training being so aggressive,didn't appeal to many.they claimed that Taekwondo was suitable only for male youths.hence there was a great demand of Aerobics mostly from older women and girls who were fighting with obesity.Through the help of zidisha,i was able to start an Aerobics gymnasium.

MY REVENUE
Taekwondo has a membership of 15 students and Aerobics has 20 members totaling to 35 members in general.Each member (both Taekwondo and Aerobics) paying a daily fee of $0.5 per session equivalent to $2.5 weekly (Mon-Fri)this tantamount to a weekly revenue from all members as $77.5. and totaling to a monthly revenue of $300.through the increased revenue,i have bee able to cater for domestic needs of my family,paying up for my children education,pay gym rent,water, electricity,and more so,giving back to the community.

GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY
4 of these members,3 in Taekwondo and 1 member in Aerobics,I have exempted them from any kind of gym fees since 3 of these are street kids whom before i spotted their talent were living on meager public handouts.I have since then given 2 of these street kids some menial duties in the gym e.g cleaning,which i usually pay them so as they may be able to cater for their daily basic needs.i then took the other kid Eric who is 10 years old (youngest)to live with me in my house to date ad providing with all his basic needs.
The other member Jocelyn,comes from a very poor family.her Dad is living with disability( crippled by polio)they live in extreme poverty,and i decided to exempt her too from gym payments since she displayed some quite considerable interest in aerobics but had no means to pay for it.

NEED FOR BODY BUILDING AND CARDIO GYMNASIUM
Their has been a very great demand of strength training ( body building) and cardio exercise from the rest of the group who do not either prefer Taekwondo and Aerobics.more so some people have different taste, preference and talent too.majority of youths in isiolo town and its suburbs have constantly urged me to open a body building gymnasium,and older women have too kept pressing me to start up a cardio exercise class along side Taekwondo and Aerobics
But my major challenge is that bodybuilding and cardio exercise equipment are too expensive to purchase and with only the small profits i get fro Taekwondo and Aerobics,it becomes almost impossible.but hoping to get the funding from zidisha community to achieve this goal for i and my county isiolo.

Loan Proposal

i shall utilize the loan to purchase the Aerobics training equipments which shall inturn accomodate higher membership.currently the limited equipments on use cannot cater the demand.i intend to purchase
Floormatt,exercise steps,weight belts,and music system to cater for the demand

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