Entrepreneur
Name
Gloria
Member since
May 2014
On-time repayments
320 installments • 15%
About Me
I am a laboratory technologist by profession and a member of the Mensah Family in Nungua, Accra. I love to see the people in my community always satisfied with their daily needs. This passion finally led me into opening a whole sale shop in the Nungua Market where I sell to retailers. I sell goods like disposable cups, spoons, and plates, excercise books, bags of sugar, bags of rice, Biscuiits, Batteries, Torchlights, Soft drinks, Toilet rolls, and shoe polishes just to mention a few.This has also reduced the stress of having to travel all the way to Accra Market to purchase goods and I am always happy when I see smiles on the faces of the people in my community when I am able to provide what they want.
My Business
I love to see the people in my community always satisfied with their daily needs. This passion finally led me into opening a whole sale shop in the Nungua Market where I sell to retailers goods like disposable cups, spoons, and plates, excercise books, bags of sugar, bags of rice, Biscuiits, Batteries, Torchlights, Soft drinks, Toilet rolls, and shoe polishes just to mention a few to the people in my community. The demands of my community has now become very high because of the approaching ocassion which is the Easter celebrations. Most churches in Ghana hold conventions, because of this demands of provisions in my shop has now become very high. I have also introduced some electricity saving devices and fuel saving devices for generators and vehicles and the demand of these devices have also shot up. I am into wholesale of these devices. The power outages in Ghana has become high and this has brought a high demand on the fuel saving devices. The wholesale price of two different the fuel saving devices I sell is GHC60 and GHC320 each. Whenever my customers don't get all they want from my shop, they get really dissapointed because they will have to travel all the way to Accra and spend more money on transportation before getting what they want. Also it is very stressful to them because in Accra most of the shops deal in single products so that people will have to visit lots of shops in order to get all that they want.
Loan Proposal
The demands of my community is becoming huge week after week but because my shop is not very large I am not able to buy more house hold supplies else there will be no space even for the customers to enter the shop. My customers get greatly dissapointed whenever they come to the shop and don't get all that they want because they will have to travel all the way to Accra and spend more money on transportation before getting what they want. Also it is very stressful to them because in Accra most of the shops deal in single products so that people will have to visit lots of shops in order to get all that they want. I need to expand my shop so that I will be able to stock it up with more goods in order to supply all the needs of my customers. I will be very grateful to Zidisha if I am granted this loan. I believe that with the help from Zidisha I will be able to expand my shop and stock it up with more household supplies which will make it more attractive, increase my customer base, and also make my customers happy because they will not have to travel all the way to Accra to get what they want into their retail shops.
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Loan Info
Project Type
Classic Loan
Disbursed amount
$462.00
Date disbursed
Oct 23, 2014
Repayment status
On Time
Projected term
6 months
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Charlottesville, United States
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