NativeTexan    Feb 17, 2014

Could we have an update? How is everything going?

• KM    Mar 12, 2014

  Hello Native Texan (and other fellow lenders) - as a volunteer here at Zidisha, I am able to see that the arrears team is working to re-establish contact with Ms. Eunice Wambui, but seems to be having trouble reaching her. I know that they will continue to do their best to get in touch with Mrs. Wambui, and hope that we will see repayment soon.

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KM    Oct 20, 2013

Hello fellow lenders, as a volunteer at Zidisha I was recently able to look up the contact history with Mrs. Wambui about her Zidisha loan. She was last in touch in September, and Zidisha has been in contact with her mentor and references as well. Thank-you for your patience.

KM    Oct 7, 2013

Hello Mrs. Wambui - Is everything all right? I hope your chickens are doing well.

KM    Aug 3, 2013

Hello Mrs. Wambui - Thank-you for making this repayment! I have just reinvested my portion of the repayment to lend to a man selling millet in Burkina Faso :)

KM    Jun 19, 2013

Hello Mrs. Eunice Wambui - I am happy to contribute in a small way to your continuing enterprise, and hope that your chickens grow strong and healthy!

• Eunice    Jul 24, 2013

  Am grateful and consider it not in a small way but in bigger way as through your support am able to increase in business.Thanks alot

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Vivien    Aug 20, 2012

Hello Lenders,

My name is Vivien Barbier and I’m a client relationship interns for Zidisha in Kenya. Today, I had a meeting with Mrs Eunice Wambui and other Zidisha borrowers. Then, I had the opportunity to visit her business and to meet her family.

Mrs Wambui is one of the poultry farmers of the villages. She and Mrs. Nyambura, her neighbor who has also a poultry business, have developed a perfect example of a “no waste” process. Every waste produced by the farm is reused or sold to other business. We spend some time together to estimate the profitability of her business. We find out that if she was selling only the chickens and the eggs, he business will not be profitable. But by reselling empty foods bags and chicken droppings, she transforms her business in a profitable one.

Using Zidisha loan she was able to increase the number of chicken in her farm from 200 to 500. Her 500 chickens will provide about 400 eggs per days when they will be all old enough. She offered me to taste one omelet made with one of this eggs and I have to say that it was delicious. She is obviously a very good cooker, so I suggested her to open a small restaurant to sell breakfast, but she answered that unfortunately nobody in Bahati would go to a restaurant to eat eggs.

There used to be many more poultry farmers like Mrs. Wambui but the increases of maize price drive them out of the business. Unfortunately, it is not possible to transfer completely the increase in cost in the chicken or egg prices; Mrs Wambui is less competing with the other farmers of the village than with the Ugandans farmers. Cheap eggs and cheap chickens coming from Uganda keep the prices low. on the Kenyan market.

Thanks to the schools summer break (or winter break depending on with side of the equator your are in Kenya), her children were at home today so we had the chance to take a great picture of the whole family.

Vivien
20th August 2012
Nakuru, Kenya