Loan to buy fresh fruits for sale at food kiosk

Anne

Mbita Township, Kenya

47% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Anne

Member since

March 2015

On-time repayments

8 installments  •  25%

About Me

I am Ann Anyango Kagungu, I was born in 1972 in the city of Mombasa and I went through my education in Mombasa. I studied Information Technology with Secretarial in College and graduated with Diploma in IT but I could not get a job, therefore I decided to start a small groceries shop/kiosk to enable me raise money to meet my family obligations.

I have three children and the first born has graduated from High School in 2014 an the last born is in Class five. The first born would like to be a Chemical Engineer and the second born would like to a Lawyer and the last born a Pilot. My children have got big dreams and I always tell them that sky is the limit.

In my free time, I do participate in Church activities like singing and visiting the sick in hospital. Mbita community where I grow, the cultural norms tend to look down upon women but with the new medias and information technologies, women are starting to have a voice and aspires to venture into small income businesses, I find this interesting and my background in Information Technology is helping me to reach out to women and mobilize them for active participation in development.

My Business

I have been in the business for more than two years now. I mainly cook deep fried bread (mandazi, french fries, tilapia fish, nile perch), fruit salads, and sell to the local residents. In my small food kiosk, I do sell dried small fish "omena", avocados, vegetables and tomatoes. I sell french fries mostly at lunch time to the casual workers who prefers take away, and I do earn alot of money from the product as compared to other products which I sell only in the evening.

If I am offered this loan I will use US$ 70 to buy assorted fruits like avocadoes, mangoes, paw paw, oranges for sale and US$ 30 to renovate my structure (kibanda) so that I may attract more and more customer to add revenue.This is where I get my daily bread and hope with good capital i will expand.

Loan Proposal

With a Zidisha loan of US$100 , I am going to use US$ 30 to renovate and expand my 'kibanda' shop. That's buying two iron sheets, timber,nails and pay the work labour. This will have impact on my business in that many customers will have enough space when they are eating chips.This will add my profit by at least 30%.

-$30 I will used to stock 1 bag of Irish potatoes. Because this my main raw material which i should have always have in store.Thank will be enough for me to make chips for one month.This will have big benefit because will buy in bulk hence given discount. With discount the profit will increase by at least 20%

Kindly lend me because by doing so you will add my profit by 50% hence my living standard will improve and the proceeds from the business will help me educate my children.Thank you

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$100.00

Date disbursed

Mar 24, 2015

Repayment status

Late

Projected term

8 weeks

Lenders

sebastienrosa

Quebec, Canada

Namaste250

Pittsford, United States

B

Bjoernanders

Tromsø, Norway

Kyle Hoback

Omaha, United States

Family Mueller

Petershagen, Germany

V

Vivek

Arlington, VA, United States

K

Khc

Austria

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