Loan to build a harvesting shade to protect harvested tea

Raha

Nairobi, Kenya

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Raha

Member since

July 2015

On-time repayments

118 installments  •  78%

About Me

I'm a mother of three- two girls and one boy. I'm an agricultural enthusiast, with a Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture. I'm even planning to do a Master's program and my dreams are way far beyond normal reach. I've always had passion for anything to do with Agriculture ever since I was a young girl. The one thing I love most about agriculture is how it's revolutionizing with time. The machines being used today are not things we had when I was a young girl. This revolution has brought so passion and drive for even further innovation. I decided to venture into agriculture, since the first day in college. After college, I sought a job for two years without any fruits or signs of even getting one. What sustained me during this time was my husband's earnings. This was not the life I had always dreamed of, being nothing more than a house wife. I always felt I had the potential to do even much big, if only I had the opportunity.

My Business

It dawned on me that I was letting my potential waste away by just staying indoors. We later came into an agreement with my husband that I'd have to go back home and invest in the tea plantations. We bought a couple acres of tea land, and this has been of much benefit to me and my family, as a whole. Tea exportation is one of Kenya's major revenue sources. It's a huge industry which has been performing quite well. It's actually one of the major boosters of Kenya's economy, as a whole.
Having recognizing this, I've been constantly looking for ways to maximize on my effort and earnings. I've to say the previous year hasn't been of what I had expected. I've realized that I've been failing the recent months due to my lack of innovation. If I would implement good, suitable technology ideas, I'd be succeeding and doing even far much more. I want to buy two ploughing machines and create partitions on my land so that calculating and working efficiently will be easy. I'm also planning to increase the number of workers on the land. This will boost the amount of work done in a day, and in turn, increase my earnings.

Loan Proposal

Once am granted this loan of 385 us dollars i will build a harvesting shade that will help me during harvesting, The Harvested tea will be placed under the shade so to maintain its kilograms and be fresh before they are collected and take to the factory.
This shade will also help workers to have a place to rest as they take their lunch.
I will budget for 300 us dollars for the shade construction and carpenters lab-our.
The remain 85 us dollars will be for farm inputs at 50 us dollars and paying workers 35 us dollars.

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$388.00

Date disbursed

Aug 18, 2016

Repayment status

On Time

Projected term

12 months

Lenders

W

Witlof

Tsukuba, Japan

ErikN

Stockholm, Sweden

MindMuse

Talking Rock, United States

dlpringle

Denver, United States

Matching Fund

Sterling, United States

K

karthich

Austin, United States

Insomnus

Cheltenham, United Kingdom

MD

Miles Dodge

CORVALLIS, United States

Anna Hoad

Toronto, Canada

Jeremy

Washington State, United States, United States

PG

Paul Graham

United States

RC

Rudi Chen

United States

Sinan Taifour

Munich, Germany, Germany

Craig Newmark

United States

The Zinc Team

San Francisco, United States

Humble Bundle Community

San Francisco, United States

ES

Evan Simons

United States

D

Dalton

San Francisco, United States

A

Anonymous

United States

MS

Merel S

Netherlands

Christian

Vienna, Austria

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  • Christian    Oct 6, 2017

    Hello Raha, I really love your idea of building your own biogas. I wish to same, kindly link up so that you share your experience with me. Wishing you all the best and God richly bless you.

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  • Raha    Sep 9, 2017

    Thank you for the support, I will buy cows for farming and future use of manure to produce gas for cooking and electricity. Biogas will help reduce life cost.

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  • Jane    Sep 5, 2017

    Good luck Raha, go for it, God will bless you :)

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  • David    Sep 3, 2017

    Good luck!

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  • Peter Paap    Sep 1, 2017

    Hi Raha, good stuff! This will help you gain access to biogaz and avoid having to pay for fuelwood or natural gaz. The following website gives an instructable: www.instructables.com/id/Bi... . If you can find the local inputs for this system, it's going to help you produce the gaz.

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  • Raha    Sep 1, 2017

    My good lenders I thank you for the previous loan, I managed to double my profits together with paying the loan in full.
    Thank you.

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  • Raha    Aug 31, 2017

    I want to thank God for seeing me through the loan repayment period.
    Thank all lenders for the support am looking forward to making more profit.

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  • Raha    Aug 16, 2017

    Thanks a lot for being with me all along as I was repaying my loan. I have managed to make profits from farming business.
    I wish to clear the loan so to invest further.

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  • Raha    Jun 27, 2017

    My good lenders you have alwas offered me support. I thank you so much.

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  • Raha    Jun 22, 2017

    I wish to thank you all lenders and zidisha for the support. I can now put more effort on repaying the loan and paying my workers more money for the good work they have done to me.
    Thank you.

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  • Eunice    May 22, 2017

    Congratulations Raha for your business and people management skills. Keep it up. VM

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  • Eunice    May 11, 2017

    Dear Lenders, I have notified Rahab to update her payments so that she is up to date. regards VM

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  • Raha    Apr 29, 2017

    Thanks for the support my lenders, I have tried to reach those I invited but it seems they are off. I will continue to try reach and convince them to repay the loan.

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  • Raha    Mar 9, 2017

    Thank you for supprt.

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  • Raha    Jan 25, 2017

    I will be adjusting my loan so to maintain repayment scores, I promise to repay on tine.

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  • Raha    Aug 17, 2016

    Once again i thank you my Good lenders for this loan i will use to build a harvesting shade, I hope you are all doing great God bless you.

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  • Witlof    Aug 16, 2016

    Good luck with the project!

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  • Raha    Aug 5, 2016

    My regards for the support you have put in my life, Its a great opportunity to be in zidisha and to be connected with you lenders, My projects are all fine and with better bonus rates i have manged to complete my previous loan, If not for you i couldn't get to this far. God continue to bless you abundantly.

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  • Raha    Jul 26, 2016

    I wish to send my appreciation to all whom helped me raise this loan am almost repaying it full and my projects are running smooth.
    God bless you

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  • Raha    Jun 14, 2016

    Zidisha and lenders i just received bonus from tea sales and all thanks to you for the loan that helped me facilitate the plantation, God continue to bless you.

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