Create an earthworm organic farming system

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About Me

I'm a husband and father of beautiful twin boys. I'm also the owner of African Center for Internet Marketing which is a leading internet marketing company in Kenya. You can find my personal blog at http://alexmaina.org. We are the first internet marketing company in Kenya and are proud to have introduced the concept to more than 100 individuals in Kenya alone.

I just love learning new things. I'm self taught in programming, web design and internet marketing. Right now I'm learning how to create organic fertilizer from earth worms. I'm trying to figure out how to set up a small home organic garden that produces quality food for my family and neighbors. Probably will have to teach my neighbors too when its successful. Thanks to Zidisha I introduced some 5 farmers in Kiambu to earthworm farming and you should see their success sometime next year when their worm farms have matured.

However, my main business is internet marketing and I live for it. Been doing it for close to 10 years and couldn't have been happier.

I love seeing change around me and change for good. That is probably why I joined Zidisha as it sounds like a very interesting concept and will use it as a case study to show others what can be done when you start small but have great ideas.

My Business

I provide internet marketing services to SEO companies worldwide. We earn our revenues through owning various blogs such as http://dumisha.com, nairobihost.com and others offering SEO services to larger SEO companies or to direct consumers, training and consultancy.

With the right partners I shall be able to achieve the dream of operating a full service internet marketing company with various authority websites in the African region.

I intend to use any loans to buy assets such as computers and also invest in good software to run the business more efficiently. This will allow me to employ more people and grow the business faster.


The current expenses are

1. Hosting Servers
2. Operating expenses such as rent and part time employees
3. Internet and others

These amount to an average of $1200 per month

Our revenues are currently at $2000 per month

As such we are currently able to service a loan which allows us to make long term asset buys.

Loan Proposal

Thank you for taking the time to view this application.

I currently run a website with over 2000 farmers who are members. We need to upgrade the site to include a forum and also improve on the site design and gather new fresh content from real farmers on the ground.

You can see the site at http://dumisha.com and the facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/dumishamaisha.

Our aim is to double the amount of content on the site over the next 1 month. This will allow us to increase the number of visitors to the site and also help more farmers start on organic farming especially the use of earthworms in order to reduce their costs of fertilizer inputs.

We shall be using the funds to create an organic farming earth worm system in a farm in Kiambu. We shall buy our first 10kg of earthworms using these funds. We shall then create content on dumisha.com that is a case study of the whole process in order to show the viability of organic farming. This should get some of our 2k members get the information they need to get started in organic farming.

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