Land and materials to take my farming to the next level

Edwin

Butere, Kenya

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Edwin

Member since

January 2015

On-time repayments

139 installments  •  73%

About Me

I grew up as a total orphan who struggled through life to make it this far. I remember, while in high school, I used to take casual jobs to take care of my needs, including paying my school fees. Being third born and with the other two elder siblings were in school as well, there was no one else left to help. The church remained the only applicable place for solace in my life. He was so gracious that through my struggles, He let me progress: today I have two degrees and I am pushing on with my PhD.

I like business so much since it supplements quite a lot in my family and it enables me stretch out to meet other people's needs, including offering support to the church. I am employed by the government, but I use my extra time in farming and business. I currently keep 75 chickens (croilers) and now wish to do agribusiness. I want to take advantage of people harvesting and purchase maize at low prices now, and dispose next year when prices will have escalated. I have several bags of maize harvested from my farm and still drying. This maize will be stored for food and purchased more for sale.

I bought vegetable seeds for commercial basis: among them, sugar-loaf, carrots, onions, tomatoes, spinach, and pepper. I intend to take my farming to the next level, subject to finding.

My Business

My income comes from employment and business. I am using this income to take care of my children and my two foster children. I have plans of taking two children (orphans) in January 2018 to Shibanga Secondary School, a school in my village which I hope I can afford from the income gotten from the farming that I am doing. The projected fees for the two are Ksh. 48,000 (USD $462).

As a way of giving back to the community, I am also a strong member of my church (Anglican Church of Kenya - Butere Diocese) and a senior official; I serve as a Synod member and patron to the Board of Trustees, Shibanga parish. I will take part of my surplus to church for blessings and for the support of the people of God.

Loan Proposal

Leasing land: $90
Seed: $3.50
Farm input: $4.50
Labour: $60
Insecticides: $60
Contingency: $4.70

Projected income: $2,000

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About Me

I grew up as a total orphan who struggled through life to make it this far.I remember while in High school,I used to take casual jobs to take care of my needs including paying my school fees.Being born third born and the other two elder siblings were in school as well,there was no one else left to help.The church remained the only applicable place for solace in my life.His was so gracious that through my struggles,He let me progress until today I have two degrees and pushing on with my PhD.I like business so much since it supplements quite alot in my family and it enables me stretch out to meet other people's needs including offering support to church.I am employed by the government but I use my extra time in farming and business.I currently keep 75 chickens (croilers) and now wish to do agribusiness.I want to take advantage of people harvesting and purchase maize at low prices now and dispose next year when prices will escalate.I have several bags of maize harvested from my farm and still drying.These maize will be stored for food and purchase more for sale.
I bought vegetable seeds for commercial basis ,among them; sugar-loaf,carrots,onions,tomatoes,spinach ,pepper.I intend to take my farming to the next level,subject to finding.

My Business

My income comes from employment and business.I am using this income to take care of my children and my two fostered children.I have plans of taking two children (orphans)in January 2018, to SHIBANGA secondary school,a school in my village which I hope i can I afford from the income gotten from the farming that I am doing,the projected fees for the two is Ksh.48,000.
As a way of giving back to the community,I am also a strong member of my church(Anglican church of Kenya-Butere Diocese) and a senior official;I serve as a Synod member and patron to the Board of Trustees,SHIBANGA parish.I will take part of my surplus to church for blessings and for the support of the people of God.

Loan Proposal

I will lease land at 90 Dollars
Seed 3.5 Dollars
Farm input 4.5 Dollars
Labour 60 Dollars
Insecticides 60 Dollars
Contingency 4.7 Dollars
Projected income 2000 Dollars

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$326.00

Date disbursed

Aug 2, 2017

Repayment status

On Time

Projected term

25 months

Lenders

W

Witlof

Tsukuba, Japan

cyrus0302

San Francisco, United States

Kjartan

Oslo, Norway

Apmay

Melbourne, Australia

Pierfausto

Rome, Italy

Cloudways

Malta, Malta

ads68

Melbourne, Australia

BF

Bob Fitzjohn

Fontvielle, Monaco, Yemen

M

Moonknight

Østre Gausdal, Norway

gseletko

South Perth, Australia

X

xavier

Toronto, Canada

P

plhughes

United States

B

bscent

Hong Kong

K

Keith

Luxembourg

MW

Matt Willis

United States

W

Wade

United States

ES

Ed Sikorski

United States

S

Susie

Christchurch, New Zealand

Martin Nielsen

Aarhus, Denmark

PG

Paul Graham

United States

Tobias

Frankfurt, Germany

A

Andrei

United States

T

Tucker

United States

RC

Rudi Chen

United States

Carla

United States

RG

Ravi Gadad

United States

TO

Thomas O'Neil

United States

SA

Shar Alamdari

Los Angeles, United States

LS

Leah Stemeroff

Toronto, Canada, Canada

Craig Newmark

United States

The Zinc Team

San Francisco, United States

Humble Bundle Community

San Francisco, United States

BE

Bob Ewing

United States

HCPSPIRIT

Helsinki, Finland

Victoria Keenan

East Anglia, United Kingdom

Paul Buchheit

Mountain View, United States

A

Anonymous

United States

Nethanel Kohen

NYC, United States

CN

Craig Newmark

United States

JG

Jake Gibson and Beverly Picardo

San Francisco, United States

L

Liz

Canada

Kelsey Lesko

San Francisco, United States

sbdoc

Reno, United States

CL

Chris loera

United States

Metalfreund

Berlin, Germany

DT

Daniel Turner

United Kingdom

R

Richard

United Kingdom

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