Getting certification in online training

Entrepreneur

About Me

I grew up mostly in the care of my mom because my dad was away at work most of the time. I remember taking her to the farm, picking up mature sweet potatoes and making sweet breakfast meals out of these.
I enjoyed two things most during these formative years, my normal school and Sunday school days and the time I spent helping my mom in the farm. We had just about enough to have a good life, and love was abundant as well.
The influence my mother had in my life easily directed my career choice. I knew then that I wanted to go into natural resource management. After high school, I joined the university to study Wildlife Ecology and Management.
While still attending University, I started paying attention to the needs of society. I looked at the roles I should play to help the youth create wealth, make societies have ready and easily accessible sources of fuelwood. My initial business was borne of this idea; making it easy for youth and women to access natural resources easily and affordably and to manage these sustainably.
I thus, started a tree nursery business that grew to become a community-based organization. In its formative years, its proceeds went to covering my university tuition fees, which I would not have paid otherwise. I now have gone into training and believe that doing it online helps me reach even more youth. The scope of my training is now broad to include online earning ventures as well. All these target the youth to give them solid avenues of making money despite the tough times.
This is only normal considering the true spirit of community that the various families I live among exercise. It is this spirit I hope to see in my children when they grow up. At 10, 3 and 1, only the eldest knows he want to become an aviator. The rest are happy to tag a long for now, which I must admit I am very grateful for.
I play rugby and plant trees. I practice both as hobbies, which some people find not only unique but odd as well. Well, to each his own.

My Business

I offer online training on natural resource management and earning from online ventures. I have digital courses in raising a nursery of seedlings as well as on online writing. These targets the youth who because of the current economic situation, do not easily get into formal employment as an appropriate situation would allow.
I have always looked at the role I can play in making the society better. Raising tree seedlings helped me raise college tuition, I therefore believe sharing this information with other youth, who may share my circumstances, will find the information very useful.
I enroll and train on average, 6 youth in a week on any of the two modules I offer. The tree nursery training online costs K.Shs. 527 while the online writing training costs K.Shs. 1030. It on average is 50-50 as both courses attract the same attention. This means my weekly revenue is K.Shs. 4671. I spend K.Shs. 1040 on internet fees and use the rest to further develop the courses, market my offers and save 5%.

Loan Proposal

Following the growing popularity of my online training courses in web content creation and natural resource management; I know want to get further certification so I continue to grow as an authority in online training. I have singled out a certification route offered by the online education platform, iversity. The training and certification program takes 6 weeks and costs US $355. Should this loan be successful, I will have enough to pay for the certification course as I already have US 125 in savings.

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