Virginia
Kitengela, Kenya
100% repaid
Name
Virginia
Member since
February 2015
On-time repayments
123 installments • 46%
My name is Virginia born in Thika near the capital city of Kenya – Nairobi. I was born in a family of three and I am the second born. Thika is an industrial town which is about 40 kilometers from Nairobi and it here where you will find heavy industries for making vehicles and food processing. My parents were businesspeople and I was raised up in an urban setup while helping our parents in their business activities.
I did my education up to secondary school and then joined a course in hairdressing where I got a certificate after one year training. I could not secure a job after the training so I resorted to doing odd jobs to earn a living.
I finally decided to start food business where I would prepare the food at home and take it to construction sites where the workers would buy the food. I later opened a makeshift hotel where I am still operating to date.
I am married with two children 10 and 4 years old and they are both in school.
I run a small restaurant where I serve people who surround my hotel. I sell popular food at an affordable price. I also sell packaged food in take-away form (where a food is packaged and the clients eats outside the hotel as shown on my profile photo). I manage to keep the price to the minimum by reducing the overheads and doing most of the chores by myself. I also try to source the food directly from the farmers so as to cut off the middlemen.
This business is quite profitable and I have earned a large group of loyal customers who came for their meals at my place. I also do outside catering on request and this is doing quite well too. I make a about $15 per day and half of that is my profit. I use this money to supplement my husband’s effort of providing for our family.
I used the first loan to buy cooking pots and a few other utensils. Have sorted that out, I now need to address another important area of my food business - cooking energy. I currently use firewood and charcoal as my source of energy. This is slow and sooty and I have always had a desire to switch to more cleaner and faster LPG gas cooker.
The cooker consists of a 13 kilogram cylinder, a grill with 2 burners and the accessories to connect the two. The total cost of this will be about USD 200 and therefore, this loan is all I need to leap into clean energy.
Kindly make my dream a reality. Thank you.
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Project Type
Classic Loan
Disbursed amount
$187.00
Date disbursed
Jul 3, 2015
Repayment status
On Time
Projected term
7 months
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