G.DW.M. Farming Project

Thomas

Mathare North, Kenya

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Thomas

Member since

September 2015

On-time repayments

28 installments  •  75%

About Me

Born in 1970, I grew in the larger Mathare slums of Nairobi Eastland's. I lost my father at a young age of 10,moved to live in the street with other boys before being helped by welwishers to complete high school. I came back to Mathare and lived a squalid life till 1995 when I receive d Christ I my life.Through friends I learned a trade in leather craft, later God called me into Ministry, I've been involved with orphans and the improvised children in Mathare ,giving them education and shelter through God's Daily Word Children center.

My Business

We are involve in providing cheap but quality Education to the Mathare community.
This kind of business add value to children within this community and helps us to take good care of the more than 50 orphans in our programme.
Running a school is not easy and definitely not cheap,in a month we need about 1250 dollars to feed the children and pay the staff.In a good month the fee collection can 1500 dollars, the extra 250 takes carevof our rent and utilities.
Sometimes we have used the extra to expand the center to help us have more fee paying kids to improve on income

Loan Proposal

I intend to buy water pump to help me with horticultural farming that will help u supplement income to feed our children Center.Currently we have a center helping orphans and dis advantaged ,running it has become expensive,we have ventured in horticultural farming to supplement this,we are believing for a water pump that will make this easier.We are leasing farms along the shores of lake victoria to do this,we call it working in the rural to feed Nairobi,we pray for your consideration as we need to pay staff and feed about 100 children daily costing over1500 USD a month,with the water pump we shall be able to farm large tracts to help with the extra income.

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$150.00

Date disbursed

Oct 10, 2015

Repayment status

On Time

Projected term

2 months

Lenders

Craig

Memphis, TN, United States

Taylor

Memphis, United States

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  • Thomas    Mar 25, 2017

    Thank you so much.I receaved the loan of Ksh 20,000 and was able to have additional acreage of farmland for increased food production.

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  • Thomas    Mar 3, 2017

    Greetings,thank you so much for helping us out.We shall be able to have enough food for the centres.Remain blessed

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  • Thomas    Mar 2, 2017

    The last loan helped us develop irrigation to help in good production for our centres. We need more funds to expand this work to have more food that can help the centres be self sufficient in good.

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  • Thomas    Feb 28, 2016

    Glory to God

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  • Thomas    Feb 28, 2016

    We thank the lenders for helping us,through this project we are to take care of our centers both in Mathare and Gudwa with food supplies.

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  • Boniface    Jan 24, 2016

    All the best in ua business bro

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  • Thomas    Jan 19, 2016

    The first pipes have been bought,next the under ground ones,we are grateful to our lenders and we pray to continue doing better for the glory of God.God bless you.

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    • Taylor    Jan 19, 2016

      Congrats! Keep up the hard work. Share this opportunity with others!

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  • Craig    Jan 13, 2016

    Thomas, looking forward to seeing your pictures!

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  • Thomas    Jan 13, 2016

    Thanks to you all dear lenders for this support,we shall be able to buy piping materials for our irrigation project.We shall post pictures of the same as soon as we do the purchase.God bless you.

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  • Thomas    Jan 7, 2016

    The first loan helped us buy a water pump that we planned to use for a large horticulture irrigation.Currently we realized we needed to do piping to help us,we desire to have drip irrigation gears that will help us put our pump into use,we already have a 1000 litre water tank that will work as a reservoir.

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  • Thomas    Dec 7, 2015

    I have been away from internet in the past three weeks,this will allow me to clear my pending loan by 8th Dec 2015

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  • Thomas    Nov 2, 2015

    with the water pump we are planning to do more so that we may be able to feed and take care of mopre children.

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  • Thomas    Nov 2, 2015

    farm

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  • Thomas    Nov 2, 2015

    the farm

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  • Thomas    Nov 2, 2015

    thanks

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  • Thomas    Nov 2, 2015

    water pump

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  • Thomas    Nov 2, 2015

    the water pump

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  • Thomas    Nov 2, 2015

    hi,thanks so much for the loan,through this loan we managed to buy a water pump to help in increasing farm space.I believe we shall be able to do more after we have laid all the pipes necessary.The pump costed 15,000 kenya shillings about 150 usd.

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  • Thomas    Oct 11, 2015

    I received my loan and bought a water pump that will help us expand the horticulture farming,this will enable us support more kids in our programs.

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  • Moses    Oct 8, 2015

    Thank you lenders for supporting Thomas

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