Buy a donkey to transport water

Agnes

Makueni, Kenya

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Name

Agnes

Member since

February 2015

On-time repayments

240 installments • 56%

About Me

My name is Agnes Nthenya. I was born and brought up in a family of six and I am the first born. I live in a deep rural area where I do farming for a living. The area depends on rain-fed agriculture, but it has a semi-arid climate so the produce is normally very poor.

I am married with three children and my husband works in a faraway city - Mombasa - where he went six years ago to look for a job. He is the one who introduced me to Zidisha. After my secondary school, I went into farming and that is what I am still doing on my small piece of land. I produce maize and beans for feeding the family, and when the produce is good I sell the surplus to the market.

My Business

I am a small-scale farmer and my farming is mostly for feeding my family. As I mentioned above, I live in a semi-arid area and we experience a lot of crop failure due to inadequate rainfall. I normally plant fast-maturing crop varieties to cope with this challenge, but sometimes the plants don't mature fast enough before the dry spell destroys them. It is a tough life and, when this happens, I have to depend on my husband, who runs a small business in Mombasa city.

I also own four goats and a cow and they produce milk, again for the family. The greatest challenge I face is water, because I normally get it from a borehole, which is about three kilometers away. I carry the water in 20-liter containers and I use my bare back to carry the water home. This is tedious and I make several trips to fetch enough water for the family consumption and also for the animals.

Loan Proposal

If I get this loan, I will use it to buy a donkey for transporting water from the borehole to my house. This will save me a lot of time that I spend when going to and from the water point which normally consumes half of my all day time. This is the most common way of transport in the area.

A donkey will cost me around $100 and I my husband has promised to give me the extra money in case this loan money will not be enough to buy the animal.

Thank you and I hope you will consider my loan application.

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About Me

My name is Agnes Nthenya. I was born and brought up in a family of six and I am the first born. I live in a deep rural area where I do farming for a living. The area depends on rain fed agriculture but it has a semi arid climate so the produce are normally very poor.

I am married with three children and my husband works in a far away city - Mombasa where he went six years to look for a job. He is the one who introduced me to Zidisha. After my secondary school, I went into farming and that is what I am still doing on my small piece of land. I produce maize and beans for feeding the family and when the produce is good I sell the surplus to the market.

My Business

I am a small scale farmer and my farming is mostly for feeding my family. As I mentioned above, I live in a semi arid area and we experience a lot of crop failure due to inadequate rainfall. I normally plant fast maturing crop variety to cope with this challenge but sometimes they plant don't mature fast enough before the dry spell destroys them. It is a tough life and when this happens, I have to depend on my husband who runs a small business in Mombasa city.

I also own four goats and a cow and they produce milk again for the family. The greatest challenge I face is water because I normally get it from a borehole which is about three kilometers away. I carry the water in 20 liter containers and I use my bare back to carry the water home. This is tedious and I make several trips to fetch enough water for the family consumption and also for the animals.