Classrooms for my school

Richard

Berekum, Ghana

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Richard

Member since

May 2014

On-time repayments

322 installments  •  14%

About Me

I am named Amissah Richard Duodu. I come from Berekum in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana. I had my Basic Education at the Berekum Demonstration Junior High School and further at the Berekum Senior High School.
I persued a Diploma in Education at the Cape Coast University by distance after a successful completion of a Teacher’s Certificate ‘n’ at the Berekum College of Education. I am currently pursuing a degree in English Education at the Valley View University. I am in a family of five and the first born of my parents.
I teach at BESS Junior High School and own a private school along side. My hobbies are reading novels, studying and watching football matches.

My Business

I started my private school with name LIFE CARE PREPARATORY SCHOOL in the year 2007 at my own compound. I started my school upon my posting to the community as a teacher. New Biadan is a farming community and education seems to have been given little attention. The only school in the vicinity was about eight kilometers from my village. Most of the pupils stuck to their parents to the farm. I thought of how to bring these poor children to the light of “education”.
I found out that there were about three other villages around which had a similar problem. I noticed that my village was located geographically at the center of these villages and therefore took the advantage to establish the school in my compound. I started the school with ten students but the number grew to twenty-four at the end of that academic year.
Currently, I have 204 students that is from the kg to primary 5. I have been able to employ ten teachers and two non – teaching staff. My school is highly patronized mostly due to my terms of paying of school fees which is by installment. Parents are allowed to pay their wards fees on installment which is spread across each academic term.
I have also included weekend school which allows parents to bring in their wards to be able to attend social functions during the weekend.
Although my school is fast growing there are many challenges which needs to be met. Most of my classrooms are in temporal wooden structures. The school has to be closed whenever it rains.
I wish to apply to Zidisha to come to my aid to help improve the structure to be able to retain the children is school. I will need about $2000.00 to undertake this project.

REPAYMENT
Should I be given this loan facility, I will be able to repay under any terms and conditions given. The school is highly patronized and parents pay their wards fees regularly.
I will be able to repay the loan from the income I generate from the payment of fees.

Loan Proposal

I will use the requested amount to buy bags of cement for the school building. One bag of cement costs $10.I was able to use the first loan to buy 5 bags of cement.I will need about 200 bags to help build 3 new classrooms for my primary four and five students and the primary six classroom for the current class five students who will be in class six come September this year.This will help raise shelter for my students who currently do not have conducive place for learning.

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$472.00

Date disbursed

Dec 24, 2014

Repayment status

On Time

Projected term

3 months

Lenders

YB Song

Seoul, Republic of Korea

COOPITALIST

Toronto, Canada

Vanamo

Helsinki, Finland

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Debock

Dresden, Germany

SeeMeeFi

Ontario, Canada

Anto82

Eraclea, Italy

jan73

Eugene, United States

Zal0m0n

Atlantis!!!! x), Mauritania

D

DavidJSmu

North Attleboro, MA, United States

dmirpuri

Bangkok, Thailand

T

thebonseung

Republic of Korea

K

Kudrnova

Czech Republic

R

roozbeh

United States

Paul Buchheit

Mountain View, United States

Mikers

Netherlands

K

KiraDee

United States

M

mbarbier

United States

KM

Kirsty M

United Kingdom

SE

Sven E

Mannheim, Germany

DR

Daniel R

Berlin, Germany

Family Mueller

Petershagen, Germany

MD

Mikey DiLalo

United States

RC

Rosie Collinson

United Kingdom

nickle23

New York, United States

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