Boost my small bakery business

Geoffrey

Eldoret, Kenya

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Geoffrey

Member since

May 2014

On-time repayments

135 installments  •  66%

About Me

I am 39 years old married to one wife with 2 children,the eldest daughter is in primary school class 5 while the younger is a son in baby class..
I am an accountant with Eldohosp Pharmaceuticals ltd. A private firm doing pharmaceuticals products distribution in Kenya.
I live in a slum estate known as Kamukunji /Bondeni in old Uganda road after Gituro quarry ,ask for moon light plot is well known house number 31 and 32 . plot number is 18/529/007
My wife and I started the small bakery business to boost our income to enable us have multiple streams of income so that we may have financial freedom.
My hobbies is listening to gospel music and reading the bible and traveling and my free time I go around the estate preaching to people and witnessing to the people about Jesus Christ as the Lord and savior

My Business

My business is Mandazi and queen cakes small bakery in Kamukunji / Bondeni estate of Eldoret .
We started the business two years ago ,our source of the earning from my employment and also the profit I make from the business.
The goods I sell to my customers are mainly Mandazi and queen cakes
Our customers prefer our business because we are always there to serve them and they never find us closed also my wife holds a certificate in comprehensive cookery and very soon will be doing diploma in the same these year starting April,her knowledge in the product enables our business to offer the best .Infact she is the one who is in full time in the job while most of my time Iam at my place of work,She is agood manager.
The business is profitable because there is high demand for the products that we are selling to them.The estate is densely populated .The risk my business faces is scarcity of products due to some times we unable to serve the entire population .
My typical monthly cost of running the business is US$ 205 while Gross profit or income before these expenses is usually approximately US$ 400.

Loan Proposal

I am 38 years old married to one wife with 2 children,the eldest daughter is in primary school class 5 while the younger is a son in baby class..
I am an accountant with Eldohosp Pharmaceuticals ltd. A private firm doing pharmaceuticals products distribution in Kenya.
I live in a slum estate known as Kamukunji /Bondeni in old Uganda road after Gituro quarry ,ask for moon light plot is well known house number 31 and 32 . plot number is 18/529/007
My business is Mandazi and queen cakes small bakery in Kamukunji / Bondeni estate of Eldoret .
We started the business one years ago ,our source of the earning from my employment and also the profit I make from the business.
The goods I sell to my customers are mainly Mandazi and queen cakes
Our customers prefer our business because I am always there to serve them and they never find us closed also my wife holds a certificate in comprehensive cookery and very soon will be pausing diploma in the same .
The business is profitable because there is high demand for the products that we are selling to them.The estate is densely populated .The risk my business faces is scarcity of products due to some times we are unables to serve the entire population and also political instability and ethnicity.
My typical monthly cost of running the business is US$ 145 while Gross profit or income before these expenses is usually approximately US$ 310.

The main reason for loan request is so that we may increase our business and start whole selling our products.We plan in the near future to buy more machines for the manufacture of queen cakes and also employ more sales people to help us in distribution of products.

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$50.00

Date disbursed

Aug 13, 2014

Repayment status

On Time

Projected term

5 weeks

Lenders

BoazField

Belleville, United States

fairspirit

Utrecht, Netherlands

F

flaguy999

Tampa, United States

Sarasota

Sarasota, Fl, United States

M

marymarrs

North Bend, United States

dlpringle

Denver, United States

T

thebonseung

Republic of Korea

Matching Fund

Sterling, United States

CMK71

San Francisco, United States

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