Horticultural farming for orphanage centre
Thomas
Mathare North, Kenya
66% repaid
Entrepreneur
Name
Thomas
Member since
September 2015
On-time repayments
28 installments • 75%
About Me
Born in 1970, I grew in the larger Mathare slums of Nairobi Eastland's. I lost my father at a young age of 10,moved to live in the street with other boys before being helped by welwishers to complete high school. I came back to Mathare and lived a squalid life till 1995 when I receive d Christ I my life.Through friends I learned a trade in leather craft, later God called me into Ministry, I've been involved with orphans and the improvised children in Mathare ,giving them education and shelter through God's Daily Word Children center.
My Business
We are involve in providing cheap but quality Education to the Mathare community.
This kind of business add value to children within this community and helps us to take good care of the more than 50 orphans in our programme.
Running a school is not easy and definitely not cheap,in a month we need about 1250 dollars to feed the children and pay the staff.In a good month the fee collection can 1500 dollars, the extra 250 takes carevof our rent and utilities.
Sometimes we have used the extra to expand the center to help us have more fee paying kids to improve on income
Loan Proposal
This loan will help us
1.In increasing good supply to the centre.We already acquired a water pump to irrigate.What we now need is to lease larger farms for the work.
2.With increased acreage we shall have much food and will be able to sell the excess to help maintain the center.
3.This will help us not to depend on donations that are always wanting.
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Loan Info
Project Type
Classic Loan
Disbursed amount
$216.00
Date disbursed
Mar 6, 2017
Repayment status
Late
Projected term
3 months
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Lenders
United States
Australia
United States
Jake Gibson and Beverly Picardo
San Francisco, United States
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