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Mary

Bahati, Kenya

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Entrepreneur

Name

Mary

Member since

August 2010

On-time repayments

83 installments • 14%

About Me

My name is Mary Kihara .I am a married lady and a former Secretary of Maombi Girls secondary school where I retired to concentrate on my business. I live at Bahati near Nakuru town

My Business

I deal with Chickens (Broilers). I brood groups of 200 birds at a time. Each Chick costs Ksh 64.50 totaling to Ksh 12,900 per group of 200 birds. I brood them using charcoal and use a Kerosene lamp for lighting their house. Each sack of charcoal costs Ksh 800. I spend Ksh 1600 for the two bags of charcoal that I require per group. The kerosene cost Ksh 65 per litre and so I require Ksh 650 for the ten litres required. For them to be healthy, I have to give them Vaccine against diseases every week up to the fourth week. Costing Ksh 1200. They need to be fed well to gain the required weight at the right time of six weeks. I use Ksh 42,000 to feed them and other expenses such as to by the dressings to keep their house dry and comfortable. I sell them at Ksh 350.00 per chick making a profit of about Ksh10, 000.

I would like to expand my business so that it can be able to cater for our family needs and create employment for my many siblings who depend on me and also my old parents are peasant farmers.

Loan Proposal

i would like to boost my business i would like to buy a computer.as i had idicated earlier that i had switch to printing and typesseting i also train people who are intersted in being computer literet so for now i have one computer (desk top) and iwould need about two more one lapto and a desktop also i would need a good printer which is able to do all the printing ranging from light matreials to heavy materials. i would also need one photocpie which will have good speed to cope with increasing photocopy work in my place. thank for the two times zidisha had offered me a loan it has been of much help i hae used the amount that i have earned to start this business and also helped my family with some of the profit thank you in advance.