Irrigation pump for my farm

Wilfred

Ugunja, Kenya

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Wilfred

Member since

February 2016

On-time repayments

39 installments  •  74%

About Me

I grew up in the village set up and life was not easy during ,my childhood,I was the third born in a family of six children, and my parents were peasant farmers.I went to shidodo primary school fro primary education and did my KCPE and the joined ingotse high school for secondary education,I was not able to go college due to lack of fees.
I joined fadhili self help group where we were though on best farming practices.I took a loan of $200 from the group and started my business of keeping poultry.I was able to make my first sales after 4 months and used the proceeds to repay the loan and expand business. I am now venturing into horticulture farming so as to utilize the fertilizer I get from my farm.
I am a youth leader and spend my free time with youths who got interest in farming doing capacity building and helping them start there farms.

My Business

I am small scale mixed farmer and I keep both poultry and grow vegetables for sale. The two projects depend on one another as the vegetables provide food for poultry and poultry give the manure.these has reduced my costs of operation.
the demand for these goods high because of huge non-farming population.my monthly typical costs are $200 and my monthly revenues per moth are $500 per month.I use the money I get from my farm to pay school fees,home improvement and saving for reinvestment.

Loan Proposal

Dear sir/madam
Please lend me $200 to facilitate purchase of foot pump irrigation to help water my crops . The adverse weather and unpredictable weather is making farming unpredictable hence need to supplement rain water with irrigation.thank you in advance.

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$192.00

Date disbursed

Aug 1, 2016

Repayment status

On Time

Projected term

46 months

Lenders

Zidisha

Sterling, United States

Hedwich

Gorssel, Netherlands

Matching Fund

Sterling, United States

Paul Buchheit

Mountain View, United States

PG

Paul Graham

United States

MS

Mike Sutherland

United Kingdom

Craig Newmark

United States

The Zinc Team

San Francisco, United States

Humble Bundle Community

San Francisco, United States

HCPSPIRIT

Helsinki, Finland

A

Anonymous

United States

Samuel

Ottawa, Canada, Canada

A

Anonymous

United States

Salvatore Martello

New York, New York, United States

C

colo

Germany

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