Computer ram to streamline interior design consulting business

Florence

Nairobi, Kenya

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Florence

Member since

April 2015

On-time repayments

87 installments  •  68%

About Me

I am a mother to an amazing little man called Cesc who will soon turn 7 years old. I am an interior designer working full time but I have a side hustle business to supplement my income because I am a single parent. We separated with the father of my son 4 years ago and soon after that I got retrenched from my employment.That was my lowest moment in life for my bot had just started school. After a few weeks of pity parties, I decided to work on taking care of my family single alone. Through my many activities I came across the business of selling second clothes which I did pretty well. I was selling them online because I couldn't afford a shop.This business among others sustained us for over a year and we were comfortable.
When i secured a full time job I decided to keep it as a side business but I want to increase my stock and concentrate on this venture.
In Kenya people are friendly, accommodating and eager to help. Raising a child as a single parent can be taxing and stressful but I am glad for my society, they have held our hands and we are doing okay.
My little man loves soccer, he is actually called Cesc, his role model is Christiano Ronaldo and Zlatan..they keeping changing though!
I love reading and charity work.I will spend my weekends with children in a local children home, washing, cleaning and keeping them company.

My Business

I have two businesses I am running apart from my full time job. I am a virtual assistant and work part time while selling second hand clothes majorly online. Second hand clothes are in demand because they are very much affordable compared to newly stitched / imported clothes in the market. i want to major in kids clothing and as a mother, dressing a boy is such a headache! From this headache I saw a business opportunity, I want to source for matching outfits for these little boys, clean them , iron them and sell. My major costs will be sourcing for these clothes, storage fee for my items at a central location in town and the delivery person fees.
I want to reinvest my profits back to my business and expand it to a shop where I can stock more items apart from kids clothes alone. I will be able to provide my son with his school fees and his soccer academy fees among other basic needs .

Loan Proposal

I want to buy a computer RAM, for my computer so that i can increase its speed,This RAM will cost me 36 US Dollars,my cpu fan will cost me 17US Dollars,i have also saved 63 Dollars that i want to add the balance fron the loan to buy a tablet for my presentations.
If i get a high speed computer with the new RAM, I will be able to work on my projects on time,meet my deadlines and as result i will have happy clients that will be converted to business,the CPU fan that i have currently is old and makes so much noise that is disturbs me as i work.I want to buy a tablet costing 105 Dollars, this will help me in doing my presentations,currently i print my designs on paper and show them to the client,the tablet will also enable me to take photos of my sites progresses and finished works for my portfolio and future references,i will also make notes on my tablet which will be safe unlike papers,If i improve my working machines i will have happy clients who will give me work,i will give business to the interior design materials suppliers and my technical team,as a result it will be a win win situation for all the players in my business
If i get the above 3 things i know my profits will go up by atleast 30% and this will mean iam getting bigger returns

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$99.00

Date disbursed

Apr 15, 2015

Repayment status

On Time

Projected term

19 months

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