Name
Elizabeth
Member since
February 2015
On-time repayments
141 installments • 42%
Elizabeth Onywera is a widow, mother of two kids and aged 38 years old. i am a secretary by profession and a very good transcriber i can take shorthand speeds of upto 120 words a minute and equally a very good typist with 50 words per minute on a manual typewriter. I am an ENTREPRENUER BY BIRTH. I started my own business after completing college this is because i had sent out several job applications and was not successful. I saw a need to venture into the food industry and that is how i began my business. I come from a county called Kisumu in Kenya, East Africa. It is a cosmopolitan town next to the shores of lake victoria and the weather is quite hot. My daughter is an introvert, very humble and a bookworm wants to be a Zooligist when she grows up and is set to sit her final primary school exams this year. Im sure she will do me proud and join the best national school. My son is an extrovert, a complete opposite of his sister, he is in the seventh grade and is quite cheeky keeps on changing his mind at the moment he talks of wanting to be a great diver, as a parent i always support him and guide him and wish him the best in whatever he ultimately chooses to do.. My most unique pastime is reading my Bible and my favourite chapter is Psalms 31, and i love playing scrabble.
I run a food restaurant and i specialise in local cuisines and i have also recently with aid from Zidisha loan purchased a tent for hire. I am based in the heart of the jua kali sector and my food is in high demand because of its highly nutritional value and affordability. I I ventured into this business because i saw there was a need for healthy traditional food and the market was readily available. Due to changing economic times i am now selling a plate of food for ksh. 120, per day i can sell up to 120 plates. This has been an A plus for my business because my food is pocket friendly and quite affordable and nourishing. That amounts to gross income of Ksh. 14400 per day after deducting my expenses for purchase of products ksh. 5000 and wages to my staff kshs. 1200 per day ( each staff is paid 400 per day im left with a income of Ksh. 8200 per day. Out of this i put aside Ksh.3500 for personal use, medical bills, entertainment, and save a part of it. That means on a typical day my net income will translate to Ksh. 4700. I also rent out my tent on weekends at Ksh.6000/-. I use my profits for personal investment, i have an education policy for my to children which i pay monthly Kshs,4000. I have also reinvested in my business by adding more cutlery, chairs and tables. Though continued Zidisha support i have upgraded my standard of living from a one bedroomed flat to a two bedroomed flat. My next goal is to be able to register myself and my children to a medical insurance scheme.
Basically what i want for my eating house and urgently is a refrigerator to store cold drinks and also be able to put my drinks on display. The current market price for a westpoint single door refrigerator is $400. I intend to place the refrigerator to the entrance of my eating room. This way customers will be able to serve themselves. It will be an advantage to me because it will reduce work load of me having to serve them with the drinks and opening my deep freezer all the time. Also it will benefit me because now i will be able to keep soft drinks and milk separetely from food. Presently i store everything in the deep freezer. My business is expected to grow in profits of upto Kshs. 500 a day. thiis is largely to the fact that my town is a hot town and sale of cold soft drinks is a blooming business. plus i have a extra of having milk products like yoghurt this is bound to increase my sales tremendously. But all this depends on me getting aglass door refrigerator where i can display my products.
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Project Type
Classic Loan
Disbursed amount
$100.00
Date disbursed
Jul 7, 2015
Repayment status
On Time
Projected term
2 months
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Carrie May 12, 2017
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