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Faith

Nkubu-meru, Kenya

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Entrepreneur

Name

Faith

Member since

July 2014

On-time repayments

306 installments • 33%

About Me

I am Faith, a mother of one boy and a nurse establishing herself. I have grown up wanting to be an independent lady and a role model to my siblings.

I started agribusiness farming 10 months ago in my home area after securing my previous loans from Zidisha. I managed to have two dairy cows and sustained my vegetable farm, where I have been getting some good harvest. Currently my farm is doing good: on the farm is a plantation of cabbages and I expect to be harvesting in early July. Having now established my vegetable farm and gotten a good market, I want to sustain the project with the earnings gotten from the farm as I venture into another income-generating project. With the three loans I have gotten on this platform, I have seen my income grow, which is being supplemented with my salary earnings as a nurse.

Out of my current savings and the loan I will get here, I plan to start my own dispensing chemist [pharmacy], where I will be treating common illnesses to people within the locality. Some of these common illness are upper respiratory tract infections (since this is a tea growing zone) and malaria. I would also provide wound dressing, family planning services, immunizations and manage clinical symptoms like joint pains (especially for the elderly), headaches and abdominal discomfort.

With the great name as a nurse I have earned in my community and the great confidence they have in me, I just realized that so many were taking advantage of that, having me prescribe drugs for them and sending me to the chemist in a nearby town to bring them the drugs I would prescribe to them.

I have noted this to be a great opportunity, and I want now to bring these drugs closer to them and also do some baseline investigation such as blood pressure monitoring, temperature and weight before commencement of treatment.

I want now to grow my passion of seeing a healthy community through managing some medical conditions and giving them health education.

My Business

My sole business is to dispense drugs over the counter and see patient with clinical symptoms, on whom I can do baseline investigations before prescribing any drugs. This shall be after a charge since the clients will be required to pay some consultation fee, and this will sustain my clinic alongside the sale of drugs.

Since my home is situated near a shopping center, I have acquired a room at a cost of $70 US dollars, this being a remote area. I plan to renovate the room at a cost of around $150 US dollars, since shelves will be fixed and the cost of material and labour inclusive.

For a start, I require at least two digital thermometers, a weighing scale, and one blood pressure machine at a cost of around $150 US dollars, and I hope to use them for a long period without breakdown. The other things are stationery materials, pharmaceutical drugs, materials for dressing wounds, and gloves, which will cost me approximately $700 US dollars.

I do not want to purchase a lot of utilities for now because of the financial strain which I might encounter, but I believe, with the amount which I will raise in Zidisha, coupled with my savings, I can roll the stone. In the future, I want to expand the business so as to be supplied from the main source.

Loan Proposal

i will use the loan to upgrade my small vegetable farm and my dairy farm. the proceeds are quite good though it requires some one to work extra hard and being a lady that's a challenge but i want to overcome it. i trust zidisha team to help me realize my dream and i know that iam going to be successful in this venture later i want to advance to green house farming and utilize the dry un used lands in our area.

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About Me

iam faith a mother of one boy and a nurse establishing her self. i have grown up wanting to be independent lady and a role model to my siblings.
I started agri business farming 10 months ago in my home area after securing my previous loans from zidisha. I managed to have two dairy cows and sustained my vegetable farm where i have been getting some good harvest. Currently my farm is doing good and iam planning to lease some more land for the same due to high demand.
Having now established my vegetable farm and gotten a good market through my fourth loan here i was able to establish my dispensing chemist. I have been treating common illnesses to people within the locality. some of these common illness are like upper respiratory tract infections since this is a tea growing zone, malaria, wound dressing, family planning services, immunizations and manage clinical symptoms like joint pains especially the elderly, headaches and abdominal discomfort.
with the great name as NURSE i have earned in my community and the great confidence they have in me so many were taking that as an advantage to have me prescribe for them drugs and they would send me to the chemist in a nearby town to bring them the drugs i would prescribed to them.
I noted that to be a great opportunity and i w brought those drugs closer to them and also i have been doing some baseline investigation such as blood pressure monitoring, temperature and weight.
My dream of seeing a healthy community through managing some medical conditions and giving them health educations in regard to their health is almost being fulffilled. If only i can acquire some more few items then this will come into a fulfimet.

My Business

my sole business is to dispense drugs over the counter and seeing patient with clinical symptoms whom i can do baseline investigations before prescribing any drugs.
This is after a charge since the clients are required to pay some consultation fee and this is what sustains my clinic alongside the sale of drugs.
I plan to buy a fridge now and a cool box to be storing vaccines and some drugs like insulin which require cold storage for their potency to be maintained.