Buy a gas cooker for cooking meals at my eatery

Virginia

Kitengela, Kenya

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Virginia

Member since

February 2015

On-time repayments

123 installments  •  46%

About Me

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.

My Business

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.

Loan Proposal

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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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$187.00

Date disbursed

Jul 3, 2015

Repayment status

On Time

Projected term

7 months

Lenders

P

phangsang

Seattle, United States

Namaste250

Pittsford, United States

D

Delok

Germany

melissapmeier

United States

S

Sven

Netherlands

Martin Nielsen

Aarhus, Denmark

Dmitriy Govorov

Karagandy, Kazakhstan

Aran Dunlop

United States

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  • Virginia    Apr 17, 2018

    I would like to complete to pay my loan,am back on my feet again.my new email address is virginiayusuf32@gmail .com

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    • J    Apr 17, 2018

      Dear Virginia,

      Please contact support to change your email address.
      You can create a support ticket using the help menu (www.zidisha.org/borrower/help).

      Kind regards,
      Joost
      Team Zidisha

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  • Esther    Feb 24, 2016

    Dear lenders, I called Virginia today and she promised to clear her arrears this week. Thank you.

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  • Virginia    Feb 20, 2016

    first I would like to thank zidisha lenders for funding my loan.i received my money and I used it to move my eatery to a bigger room. I would like to reduce the my payment from 1000 to 500 because my business is not doing good for now but I will continue with bigger amount soon.

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  • Virginia    Jan 25, 2016

    Thank you so much lenders for your continued support. Through this support, my business has grown beyond my expectation and I am hopeful that the growth will continue with more of your support in future.

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  • Aran Dunlop    Oct 9, 2015

    Hi Virginia, perfect payment history so far, well done! Hope your business is thriving!

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    • Virginia    Oct 18, 2015

      hi Aran, my business is doing good thanks to lenders for making my dreams come true. God will bless u always.

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  • Virginia    Sep 17, 2015

    Dear lenders, am so greatfull for the loan. I was able to buy the gas cooker and my business is doing well and am serving my customers on time. God bless you forever.

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  • Virginia    Aug 30, 2015

    Dear lenders, I have been experiencing a dip in sales, and this has affected my cash flow. I kindly ask for your understanding as I reduce my weekly installment to Kes 500 for now.

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  • Virginia    Jul 2, 2015

    Thank you lenders. You have done it again. I will now go ahead and buy the gas cooker and this will make a big difference in how I do my cooking. May you live long to keep helping others who are in need.

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  • Virginia    Jun 30, 2015

    Dear esteemed lenders. I managed to buy cooking pots and a few other utensils with the money you loaned me earlier in the year. This made my work easier and left my customers happier. Here I am again, more confident as I request for funding for my second loan. Thank you so very much.

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  • Virginia    Jun 2, 2015

    Thank you so much lenders. I am glad to let you know that the loan that you gave me early this year helped me a great deal because I was able to buy the utensils that I needed for my business.

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