Help me boost my farm produce for my food shop

Violet

Sanga'alo Village, Kenya

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Violet

Member since

November 2014

On-time repayments

65 installments  •  49%

About Me

I am a 23 year old business lady.I have been farming since i was 12 years old,helping my mother to plough peoples farms at a fee.I worked as a maid from a young age,15 years,when i could not get school fees to go ahead and join secondary school.I come from a polygamous family,my father has four wives and his priority in our poor family was a few so i went to the city and worked in peoples homes earning about 20$ to 30$ a month sleeping in kitchens as i worked as a housemaid cum nanny.Sometimes i worked on the side ,washing bachelors clothes at a fee.I saved the money i earned through those years,sometimes not being paid and left for the rural area and used my savings to buy fresh potatoes and fry potato fries and sell them at a profit,making some average profits per day.Those profits enabled me to buy a small piece of land in Bungoma county which i am expanding as i continue to do business.
I got married 5 years ago to a wonderful man who does all he can to support me with the little he also earns and i have one baby boy, and now i plant and sell kale,cabbage,carrots and tomatoes.

My Business

I buy potatoes from the very fertile Mt Elgon area of our county,about 20 miles away,have them transported them by motorbike and peel them by hand,fry them and sell potato fries at the gate to Sang'alo Institute of Science and Technology.The students love the fries and this enabled me to open a store right at that gate of the institution and i have slowly stocked it with various items that the students need such as pens,books,a computer to edit research papers (i attended training in typing and editing and basic computer).I bought a hair shaving machine with my prior Zidisha loan and have been succesfuly running the barbershop in the partitioned room next to my food shop.I would like to buy a blowdrying machine to add to my barbershop and a computer to enhance my retail shop to cater more for the students needs.

Loan Proposal

I would like to get a loan so that i may buy Kale seedlings,potato planting vines,tomato seeds and corn seeds and plant them in readiness for the busy December to January rainy season production, and so that i can stock my food shop with readily available potatoes, vegetables,tomatoes and corn.I have already paid in part for a 5 acre piece of land and i use the piece of land to plant the items that i used to buy 20 to 30 miles away.
Also this loan will help boost the rest of the stock in my food shop because i stock the rest of the items such as stationery and bread or eggs using proceeds from my agricultural activities.
I need a boost of 50$ to help me buy the seeds.

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$50.00

Date disbursed

Dec 2, 2014

Repayment status

On Time

Projected term

6 weeks

Lenders

G

guenter

Bremen, Germany

Gnomie

Brunswick, United States

McJulio

New Jersey, United States

SE

Sven E

Mannheim, Germany

M

MatzeFR

Frankfurt, Germany

Family Mueller

Petershagen, Germany

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