Equipment for baking bricks

David

Bungoma Town, Kenya

18% repaid

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Entrepreneur

Name

David

Member since

September 2015

On-time repayments

104 installments • 8%

About Me

I am a pastor with Baptist church of Bungoma and was born and grew up in Bungoma to a family of hardworking parents,Mr Dismas Misiko and Redempta Nabangi who were and farmers.Growing up we did not have the money nor the land but me and my 3 brothers and 6 sisters born of one mother did what we could in the farm too help plant and raise food and chicken for sale and for our own use. I went through primary school at Nalondo primary school and later graduated into Marobo secondary school.I also attended West Baptist institute and graduated to become a pastor.However at an early age i have been focused into making bricks for sale,a business i started with my fellow brothers when we were young.I have a wife now and i am happily doing wife Anna and we now have 4 children.I engage a lot in charity work and help women and widows in my free time while also helping my family when its season time and we plant and harvest corn and beans.

My Business

I make bricks by buying sections of land which people are selling.usually they sell 10ft by 10 ft spaces at around 100$ which we use to make the bricks by digging out the soil then mixing it with water and letting it settle in the same point for 24 hours before we make a kiln and after shaping the mud in wooden trowels we lay them in the kiln and cook/bake them under a hot fire for at least a week ,then we remove the bricks and separate the cracked ones from the good ones, then we advertise and sell each brick at 25US cents each. Sometimes business is good and after payment i can make as much as 175 $ after paying the two extra hands that help me,but sometimes business is low and we lose many bricks because the cooking and baking destroys more than we needs to break even.But it pays and helps me feed my family and also to help my church members who cannot sustain themselves or make a living. But there is no month in which we sell less than 1000 bricks especially with the construction boom going on in the country.

Loan Proposal

I will buy 2 wooden mud shaper that is used for shaping the mud used in baking my bricks (its worth 20$ each), and also 3 large polythene papers for covering the bricks during treatment (5$ each) and timber poles worth 10$ to use for building a structure used to store the bricks and protect them from the rain. This will enable to increase my sales by approximately 50% and will reduce losses incurred from damages caused by exposure to the rain and environment.