Name
Sophia
Member since
January 2016
On-time repayments
58 installments • 2%
i was born in Mombasa as a first born i went to primary school at Donaolinda academy where i joined class one to seven my father was transferred to Nairobi and we moved from Mombasa to Embu which was near Nairobi where my dad was working i then joined another school called st peters in Embu and completed my kenya certificate of primary education and emerged the number one in the school in 2008 i joined st annes secondary school in Embu which is one of the best schools in Embu that is known to perform well and the cleanest in the region i took computer studies mathematics,English, Swahili ,biology,history, chemistry and christian religion in 2011 i completed my secondary education and passed well with a grade B where i later joined Kenyatta university in Nairobi in 2012 and took B.A while in the university i had less pocket money and sometime would lack money at all and i had to do something about it so i decided to teach student in their weak subjects in the evening and holiday through this i managed to get some little capital that started my gifted hands vitenge business my parents and friends were happy about it and everyone was positive about my business.when am free i motivate fellow peers in the university and where i live i love motivating people and i am a student peer counselor in our university currently the chair-lady of the peer counseling we have a hundred peer counselors and we reach over seventy two thousands students in our campus
i provide both goods and services,the services are the home based tuition and counseling services and the goods are the women vitenge and lessos .both the tution, vitenge and lessos are useful and hot cakes here in Nairobi since parents have known the importance of education and are now investing in there children by ensuring that they get assistance in their weak subjects hence excel well academically, the vitenge and lesso i get them from Mombasa(south coast) and when it comes to selling them i don't have a lot of competition because my goods are of higher quality as compared to the ones available.my costs in buying the vitenge and lessos range from 15000 and when i sell between 23000 and 24000 i use my profit in reinvestment to the business
when I get this amount I will buy 6 pairs of lessos (shukas) which cost 550 each and 4 women vitenge at 550 each, then sell them at 800 per pair this will enable me to pay my weekly loan repayment and reinvest on the business
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Project Type
Classic Loan
Disbursed amount
$110.00
Date disbursed
Jan 24, 2016
Repayment status
Late
Projected term
13 months
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