Buying desks

Judith

Nairobi, Kenya

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Judith

Member since

January 2019

On-time repayments

49 installments  •  33%

About Me

My name is Judith Mutinda. I am the founder and CEO of Gilgal Springs Foundation. I am a teacher by profession. I have a degree in ECPE (Early Chilhood and Primary Education), Curriculum implementation and Mathematics as a teaching subject. Currently I am a government teacher.
Despite being a widow eight years now my humble beginnings help me find more satisfaction in serving disadvantaged children and vulnerable marginalized groups in my community. My partnership with Zidisha has always empowered me to achieve the objectives of my business in provision of education, skills and knowledge to the needy and at the same empower the vulnerable groups of people.
Hope you will enjoy walking together with me for the better of one or more soul in need.
Feel free to Google Gilgal Springs Foundation to know more about my work.

My Business

My business is a school. It is called Gilgal Springs Academy for the Disadvantaged children and vulnerable groups of people in the community.

Loan Proposal

Buying desks and finishing up the renovation of classes. The desks cost $60 and repairs of $20. This will make the pupils feel comfortable in a clean class and a place to sit and write comfortably.

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$82.00

Date disbursed

Apr 25, 2019

Repayment status

On Time

Projected term

1 week

Lenders

Paul Buchheit

Mountain View, United States

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  • Madesto    Apr 4, 2021

    Judith agreed to pay her loan by 13th of may

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  • Madesto    Mar 3, 2021

    judith agreed to adjust the instalments and repay the loan without failure very soon

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  • Judith    Feb 24, 2021

    I invested in building a hostel for vulnerable girl and the intake will be at the start of March from 5th. I expect to receive back all the funds used and pay back the loans I had taken from from financing partners.
    Thank you for your patience.

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  • Janet    Jan 10, 2021

    Judith promised to resume paying her loan soon once her financial status improves

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  • Judith    Nov 30, 2020

    I reinvested the loan so that I could pay the whole amount at the start of December 2020.

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  • Timothy    Nov 13, 2020

    Mutinda promised to make adjustment and do the weekly repayments.

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  • Judith    Oct 19, 2020

    Dear lenders,
    I received $19.112 to day. I am going to buy sanitizers and hand washing equipments for the school. I will be updating you on the process.o
    Once again thank you.

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  • Judith    Oct 17, 2020

    Today is a special day to my lenders. I would like to show you my children and grandchild. You are part and parcel to the success of my family. There we go:

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  • Judith    Oct 16, 2020

    Thanks very much my lenders I have seen how much you love the children of Gilgal Springs Academy. Let's move on. A friend in need is a friend indeed. Lol. Enjoy the maasai homestead photo.

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  • Judith    Oct 16, 2020

    Good afternoon my lenders. I am happy about what you are doing to help Gilgal Springs Academy. I Will continue working hard to make peri-urban areas of Isinya a better place than I found it.

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  • Judith    Oct 7, 2020

    Hello my lenders,
    Once again I would like to shortly update you about the Gilgal Springs Academy for the Disadvantaged that you have been lending.
    We started by buying one packet of dustless chalk,then a desk, uniform for 10 pupils but now we are talking big. From the church building,we moved to our rented 10 classrooms and finally last year December we bought our own land that we are yet to build our complete school.
    Challenges have been many but we as a group can smile and work harder to assist and reach more children. More than 500 children are still awaiting to join us if only the school construction will complete soon. Most private schools have been closed down because of Covid-19 setbacks and current new Government rules.
    I am happy to share with you also about our success in empowering the first 8 vulnerable women through our partnership with Kenya women finance. My prayer is that in the next five years,we should be lending to women through Gilgal Springs Sacco.
    Currently I am working on building some temporary classrooms in preparation full school opening in January 2021.
    I have requested for Ksh. 100000 not because it is enough but I will use to build one class room for grade 4, buy sanitizer, hand washing equipment and masks.
    Least but not last, I would like to thank you very much for having been patient with me when things seemed not working well. We Gilgal Springs Academy community are very proud of you,Our lenders.

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  • Judith    Oct 5, 2020

    These are the house I built they are waiting for Windows, doors and floor finishing.

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  • Judith    Oct 4, 2020

    Good morning! Here in Kenya. I would like to thank you all my lender for your support. This is how I spent the funds. I bought different types of farm food worthy $300 I sold the food within one week and made a profit of $150. I made a list of eight most vulnerable women parents and visited Kenya women finance bank, Kitengela branch. I made the manager and discussed about funding these eight women to start each a business. The manager agreed and we used the funds generated to open account place saving and borrow against our savings. These was done and we were given loans as below.
    Judith Mutinda-$500
    Justine wamalwa-$200
    Clare Nanjala-$200
    Winfriah
    sikimu-$300
    Dorine Nanjala-$300
    Esther Wangila-$300
    Iren Nelima-$400
    Faith Mutinda-$300 and
    Eunice Mulupi-$300.
    All these group members are doing well. I am grateful for the support you gave me to empower these seven first woman. I am looking forward to reach more in future. The group is called Gilgal Springs women group. I have seen several more women seeking to join the group. I am looking forward to expand it to be a small Gilgal Springs Sacco in future.
    About my $500, I constructed four rental house which are not yet finished. Each has one-bedroom,a sitting room and a small kitchen. I will be expecting each to be rented at $45 which will be a total of $180 per month. I will be paying up my loan of zidisha on 6th of October.
    Once again thank you for extending your help to me.

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  • Timothy    Sep 28, 2020

    I talked to Mutinda and she promised to make repayment on 30th of this month.

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    • Judith    Oct 4, 2020

      Thanks Timothy for reaching me and sharing with me the way forward. Once again thank you.

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  • Judith    Sep 7, 2020

    Hello My Dear lenders,
    I bought the cereals and and sold in two days. This made me to reinvest all the gross income and bought more cereals to supply to meet the demands of my customers and also helping at least more families to access at least a meal.
    Thank you very much for your support.

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  • Judith    Sep 7, 2020

    I reinvested the gross income to reach the demand of my customers.

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  • Judith    Aug 18, 2020

    Dear lenders thank you very much for lending our school income project funds. I will buy food from farmers and supply to the peri-urban areas of Isinya at a slightly lower price so that most families can at least get a meal during this period of Covid-19.

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  • Judith    Aug 17, 2020

    Hi My Dear lenders I Am back to zidisha. Covid-19 has been a challenge to all but to our good lenders your support has helped Gilgal Springs Academy move forward. Enjoy your efforts by viewing the photos below.

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