Materials to complete a building project

Gideon

New Weija, Ghana

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Gideon

Member since

August 2014

On-time repayments

299 installments  •  78%

About Me

My name is Gideon John Amefu. I come from a family of six, my parents inclusive. I live at New Weija a suburb of the Accra Metropolis. I am a student and I am currently at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology pursuing a degree course in Civil Engineering.

I started a marketing business in order to lift some burden off my parents. I market products such as popcorn machines,hand-made crafted bead bags and purses, wooden bags and more via internet. The money I gain from the sale of these items are used to pay my school fees and my feeding. I also sometimes re-invest the money into other lucrative businesses to get my returns. As a young gentleman, I want to come out of the University prepared to affect my generation positively. I want to do this by training my fellow young ones the skills and appropriate way to marketing especially in Ghana and Africa- this will mean I should have a hands-on training in that regard. With the help of Zidisha and lenders I will promote my marketing plans.

I love to play table tennis, video games as well as football. At my free time I love to read my bible, search for more website where I can post my adverts and market more items online.

My Business

The business I do is online marketing of products. I mostly market products such as teaching aids to people online, door-to-door, through posters and advertisement. My Dad is a handicraft producer who mainly produces teaching aids in both wooden and digital forms. These teachings aids are a supplement to help teachers guide children in their formative stages. The teaching aids would help build their fundamental study of pronouncing words and how to communicate. There is a demand for these goods and services because there are a lot of schools encompassing my neighbourhood and these different schools need these teaching aids to help boost their level of communication to children. My business is much preferred because the teaching aids are sharp,real,easy to read and understand,quality,durable and very attractive and most of all very reasonable(in terms of cost). The business is profitable because there isn't much of a competiton and therefore we are able to supply to a large number of schools in the neighbourhood and make our profits. The main risks my business faces is that, should there be an error in the wording(digital form of teaching aids), it could be rejected and the cost of production is lost. However, this risk isn't so much of a problem because we have alternatives to remedy the situation whenever it occurs. I mostly make approximately 95usd every month. I believe through advertisement I can take over a greater number of schools in my country.

Loan Proposal

Hello Lenders, this loan I am about taking would help me buy materials for building such as cement bags, sand, water, building blocks or bricks and stones. The total amount needed for the project is 3000 usd. This loan would allow me to complete a portion of a building project I have already started and this portion could be used as a shop for my already existing popcorn machine manufacturing business. This loan could help relieve me of the rent I used to pay for the use of other people's rental shops. It would also help me do a portion of my building project since the shop is embedded within the entire building. So the amount which would have been used for rental could now be a profit to me. It could increase our profits by 50usd.

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$1,082.00

Date disbursed

Oct 10, 2018

Repayment status

On Time

Projected term

11 months

Lenders

ninamaqami

Ankara, Turkey

xtrahardware

Cazenovia, United States

B

bscent

Hong Kong

Grant Xavier Storer

Seattle, Wa, United States

SV

sven vdk

Twickenham, United Kingdom

Wouter Schoonveld

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Aran Dunlop

United States

Thomas

Sweden, Sweden

JC

Justin cohan

United States

Sinan Taifour

Munich, Germany, Germany

Benjamin Kniaz

Boston, United States

Day Family

Melbourne, Australia

HCPSPIRIT

Helsinki, Finland

JF

J Fister

United States

SS

Sandi Smith

Pimpama. Queensland, Australia

ZS

Zach Silveira

Asheville, Nc, United States

J

Johanna

Zürich, Austria

KA

Kate and Tom

United States

J

Jakub

United States

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