Flower and tree project

Entrepreneur

About Me

My life growing up was not well off at all; orphaned at a tender age of eleven, I did not have any other option left other than working to support myself and my two younger siblings. I was a simple laborer - doing a bit of everything which did not earn much. I can recall there were times I did not even make enough for food.
Little did I know that life was about to change. In the month of June, 2015, I attended a business start up course where I was trained on ways to start a business with ease using the available resources. This training course was organized by the area local government whereby I, and the fellow graduands were given a sum of one thousand shillings to help start our respective choices of business. As for me, the only resource I had was a small piece of land which my dear parents had left behind. I decided to get in to tree and flower planting as my business venture and this is my income earner to date.

My Business

My venture into tree and flower selling was just a mere trial. I didn't have the slightest idea it could become my source of income. With the gift of one thousand shillings, I bought tree and flower seeds and went back home where I made my first seedbeds, one for flowers and another for trees. I didn't have any money to buy the required fertilizers so I borrowed manure from my neighbors who kept cows. In about three months time my seedlings were ready for the market. I was lucky to get a generous buyer who bought all my seedlings at a go. This gave me the encouragement to make more seedbeds and plant more. The routine has repeated several times every year since then, and I'm glad I could get customers and also being the only tree and flower grower in the area. Water for irrigation has been a big challenge, but I try my level best to cope with it, using water harvesting from the rains and storing the water as much as I can.

Loan Proposal

I will use the funding to purchase a water pump to ease the irrigation. I believe with this tool I will produce more and boost my earning.

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