Expanding my family grocery shop

Yonah

Nairobi, Kenya

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Yonah

Member since

March 2016

On-time repayments

213 installments  •  82%

About Me

I was born in a family eleven children's being seven born my life in family was never easy because we used to stay with mum for dad was working far and it was hard for him to be at home he could be found only at holiday it was for the family to do work in farm at my young age i could first go to dig land before going to school sometimes we go without lunch yet i was hard work boy at school i only repeated in class seven not because i fail but to allow my brother go first after doing class eight i joined secondary only for one year and dropped for lack of school fee this to try my luck in causiol laper

My Business

As i was doing this hard job my spinal cord had a problem because of hard work while i still young this turned my focus from doing hard work and started a business of hawking in my home town after one year in mixed with farming and this where all my life changed to another direction for when the crops were ready for heavest my mum could sell without asking my permission this forced me to run away from home because i did not want to fight with my mum this was Complet turn around of my life for i was to start seeking for job then got in security firm which under paid me i suffered for one year i resigned then my friend introduced me to Boda Boda riding bike it was somehow better until 2008 when clashes arised in nakuru town where i staying i runned for my life coming to Nairobi and join hotel as a clearner and learned to cook after which i left to look for a job as a cook which i did for two years payment was not good a friend introduced me on courier sevicer which i did for two years learning how the job was being done i started raising money to buy motorcycle so i could start my own it was not easy but with dertemination i was able to get second hand motorcycle that has not giving good service through this hardship was able get new small one that am using even if it is not enabling me to save my customers fully yet am focused to expand my business to clearing and forwarding if get source and directions on how to do my business is regestart full.
after much deliberation with my wife we agreed to open a family grocery shop as this would boost our family income. i am therefore planning to open a shop for my wife , she will be be the shopkeeper and i will be assisting.

Loan Proposal

hello am planing to buy
1 sugar 100kg@10,000
2 cearals 10bags bean soya maize ndengu etc@30,000
3 salt tealeaf royco indomine sweats and allother small things in shop@20,000
4 carring bags and packing bags 5,000
5 mpesa 35,000 aready is working with little amount

Income Source

the estate am living in people have started to rertun in town after staying home at rural now i see getting my money in this bussines itself to repay my loan

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$439.00

Date disbursed

Jul 7, 2020

Repayment status

Late

Projected term

8 months

Lenders

C

cyrilleberger

Gammalkil, Sweden

M

Mary

United States

Carrie

Arlington, MA, United States

Darren Jeppson

Denver, Colorado, United States

J

Johanna

Zürich, Austria

T

Tanvir

United States

Girolamo Marroccoli

Basel, Switzerland

EA

Eric Ayers

Atlanta, United States

Adrian

Liverpool, United Kingdom

BP

Brian Piltz

United States

BS

Brendan Scanlon

Troy, United States

M

Mika

Switzerland

KF

Kathy F

Memphis, TN, United States

Jeanette

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

ND

Nick DiCesare

Denver, CO, United States

Dustin Lape

Lynchburg, United States

Peter Collins

Darmstadt, Germany

P

PatrickZisha

United States

CE

Christopher Engleright

Stafford, United States

matthewstephen

Houston, United States

JRM

South Bend, IN, United States

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  • Yonah    Feb 12, 2024

    Loan proposal
    Thank you very much for loan you gave me it helped a lot now i just want to expand my m-pesa shop which has 40,000 so i want to have equity 50'000 KCB 50'000

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  • Yonah    Jan 30, 2024

    Thank you for approval am looking forward for your response the loan you gave me help me and the business is going on still my tacked is to make it supermarket if i get funds partner with me to achieve this dreams

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  • Yonah    Apr 29, 2021

    Thief's took the money from my shop so am able to pay 200 weekly but no option that is why am un able to do anything

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  • Madesto    Feb 25, 2021

    Yonah promised to pay the dues by the end of March then adjust installment

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  • Yonah    Nov 20, 2020

    Turn out of customers is very low

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  • Yonah    Oct 9, 2020

    I can not pay full now money is not available i do why people are having money to make business continue well

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  • Yonah    Aug 28, 2020

    The follow of money is very low most of people have no job this has affected most of business around we have stocks but customers are no where still we are trying

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  • Yonah    Jul 22, 2020

    I need more grace priod before i start paying cause the amount is still in good i bought

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  • Yonah    Jul 6, 2020

    Am going to add my stock in my shop this will help me to maintain my customers thank you very much for this loan

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  • Yonah    Jul 6, 2020

    Talked to Wilberforce okello as volunteer mentor thank you in advance

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  • Mary    Jul 5, 2020

    I can see that you are a very determined man Yohan. You will be successful at whatever work you take on. I am proud of how far you have come and thank you for taking in the baby who's Mother had passed. I am sure you will provide a good home.

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  • Yonah    Jun 30, 2020

    am so greatfull for the loan i finished paying it enabled me to add the stock in my shop and even be able to take in one baby who now six month after her month passed as she was delivering am taking this loan now due situation my bussiness was affected since covid19 started because most people return to rural but now they have stated to be back i just want to stock at this time to maintain my customers now they are not getting that they need this loan will help me their needs

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  • Yonah    May 29, 2020

    due to this pandemic of covidi19 am not able to raise full amount

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  • Yonah    Mar 24, 2020

    This the child now three months

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  • Yonah    Mar 24, 2020

    Hello am not able to pay this full amount because we took in a child who's mother passed on as she was delivering so am taking Care of him

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  • Yonah    Feb 7, 2020

    Am very great full for loan for sure it has helped me be where am today with my house rent is no longer hard to get and food for my family even recently we took in one month baby after his mother passed and we are able to help him

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  • Yonah    Feb 6, 2020

    still working on how I can stabilised stabilised after what happened

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