Entrepreneur
Name
Amos
Member since
September 2015
On-time repayments
18 installments • 56%
About Me
I was born in the year 1975 in Nairobi. I am married with three children. Two girls and a boy. I grow up in the rural village in Western part of Kenya where my mother moved with us after our growing family could nolonger afford to live in Nairobi. This is where I attended my both my primary and part of High School. I never completed my High school due to lack of School fees as my mother who was so much sickling could not afford to raise enough money to feed and educate a family of eight children. After that I moved to Nairobi to seek for any opportunity as unskilled laborer and ended up in Kibera slums where my father was living. I tried my hands in every job I could find within and outside Kibera in the Nairobi industrial area. This was not an easy task. I later started a business of selling second hand clothes with a capital of Kshs. 300 which I borrowed from my father. The business did well and I managed to pay back my father with an interest. Few years later I left my business to volunteer to work with Mission Hope rehabilitation center for orphan and vulnerable street children in Quarry village in Embakassi Nairobi-Kenya. This is where I first met Dr. Craig and Taylor Strickland and a team from Hope Church. While in that center I saw many lives transformed through the love of God and his people not until the center got burnt with unknown people at night. Thank God no life was lost. We later managed to resettle all the children who were in this center in other children homes and centers and later moved to Kibera to start my own ministry.
My Business
In the year 2001 I founded the Nairobi Christian Outreach Centre in Kibera slums Nairobi with a children's bible Club. After that a church was born out of the club. After working with kids for sometime I realized that there was a greater need to feed and educate the so many orphan and vulnerable kids who were flocking the bible club everyday with empty stomachs. I therefore decided to choose 30 kids who were so much vulnerable and could not afford a meal or afford to go to school and enrolled them in our new founded education and feeding program that was offering them free education and two meals a day. The program kept on recruiting more children every year in our small property that also doubles as a church. Right now our program supports over 250 orphan and vulnerable children from Kibera slums. It costs us 1USD per day to educate and feed 1 child in our program or 30USD per month per child. Most of our support comes from friends and well wishers. The reason why I personally need this loan is for the purpose of feeding and providing the essential needs to the vulnerable kids and persons from the Kibera slums in Nairobi Kenya which has been hardly hit by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Loan Proposal
This money will help me to reproduce copies of my already recorded audio music CD to get it ready for the market.
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Loan Info
Project Type
Classic Loan
Disbursed amount
$147.00
Date disbursed
Mar 1, 2017
Repayment status
On Time
Projected term
2 months
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