Boosting supply for egg-selling business

Esther

Kisumu, Kenya

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Esther

Member since

July 2013

On-time repayments

330 installments  •  36%

About Me

My name is Esther B Okemwa, a forty seven year old mother of five children. I was born in Kisii. I am a fifth born among ten siblings. I went to school in Kisiis St. Charles Lwanga High school with a lot of challenges since my father who was the sole bread winner passed on when I was still young. I thank God I managed to complete my O level and I am a trained primary school teacher who has taught for the last 24 years. I have been teaching in a private school for the last eight years ,however in August last I was laid off .I tried to look for employment at that time and did not succeed .My two children are in school and one in the University, two are unemployed after completing their studies in the university. I am a very hard working strong willed person ready to do any work available.so far I have started an egg selling business to continue with educating my children and tending the family. The work is quite challenging since sometimes the eggs break a lot which means I incur a lot of losses. I also coach children on reading privately at a fee which helps in my daily activities. Am married to George Makokha who hails from Busia County in Kenya. He is the first born in a family of ten. He has been taking care of his family since they were orphaned. He works in the catholic mission hospital where much of his work is voluntary services to the community. He gave me the initial fifty thousand shilling which I started the Business with from his savings so that I can be able to assist him to bring up our five children and continue tending the farm to get our daily food. I get my eggs from a renowned farmer in Mois Bridge Eldoret which is about two hundred kilometers from Kisumu where I stay currently and operate my egg Business. I have to travel there every week to get the egg to sell as I continue developing and prep thus will release more profit and to have my own layers this will ease the problem of using transport to and get more eggs for sell .I will have my own farm to keep chicken for layers. My long term objective is to be able to have my layer laying up to one thousand trays of eggs per a week. I feel I can achieve this from the profits that I make currently and a little bit of reinforcement by selling more trays of eggs per week. I sell my eggs on wholesale at two hundred and ninety and retail at three hundred shillings. The profit margin is good, but there are instances when there are way too many breakages that this profit is not realized instead I recover the capital of the goods and start afresh.At the moment, money is a great hindrance to some of these developments. I believe the Zidisha Loan I receive will help me develop and expand my business. `I intend to get an additional thirty crates for sale. This money is very essential in adding a little more profit into what I make now. Zidisha has come at a better time for me. As I have now created a greater clientele since I started this business early in the year. The demand for eggs has now become overwhelming and I was on the verge of not meeting these demands, thanks to Zidisha I may now not disappoint my clients since I will now have constant supply.

My Business

I used an initial fifty thousand shillings to start the Business with from his savings so that I can be able to assist him to bring up our five children and continue tending the farm to get our daily food. I get my eggs from a renowned farmer in Mois Bridge Eldoret which is about two hundred kilometers from Kisumu where I stay currently and operate my egg Business. I have to travel there every week to get the egg to sell as I continue developing and prep thus will release more profit and to have my own layers this will ease the problem of using transport to and get more eggs for sell .I will have my own farm to keep chicken for layers. My long term objective is to be able to have my layer laying up to one thousand trays of eggs per a week. I feel I can achieve this from the profits that I make currently and a little bit of reinforcement by selling more trays of eggs per week. I sell my eggs on wholesale at two hundred and ninety and retail at three hundred shillings. The profit margin is good, but there are instances when there are way too many breakages that this profit is not realized instead I recover the capital of the goods and start a fresh save half my profits from this business and spend the rest on getting more stocks/ eggs for to grow my business.At the moment, money is a great hindrance to some of these developments. I believe the Zidisha Loan I receive will help me develop and expand my business. `I intend to get an additional thirty crates for sale. This money is very essential in adding a little more profit into what I make now. Zidisha has come at a better time for me. As I have now created a greater clientele since I started this business early in the year. The demand for eggs has now become overwhelming and I was on the verge of not meeting these demands, thanks to Zidisha I may now not disappoint my clients since I will now have constant supply.

Loan Proposal

My long term objective is to be able to have my layers (chicken) laying up to one thousand trays of eggs per a week. I feel I can achieve this from the profits that I make currently and a little bit of reinforcement by selling more trays of eggs per week. I sell my eggs on wholesale at two hundred and ninety and retail at three hundred shillings. So far i have made progress am building a shed to sell my eggs on retail as well. I would like some more money for the completion of this project

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$251.00

Date disbursed

Feb 19, 2015

Repayment status

On Time

Projected term

5 months

Lenders

P

Philippe

Adliswil, Switzerland

Hope2012

United Kingdom

T

Tec69200

Jacksonville, United States

C

cfaul

Seattle, United States

ads68

Melbourne, Australia

F

flaguy999

Tampa, United States

B

BigWillie

Belfast, United Kingdom

M

msaari

Tampere, Finland

soniad

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

fransk

Culemborg, Netherlands

mepster

San Francisco, Ca, United States

J

jsbisa

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

A

adamdreaming

United States

Anna Hoad

Toronto, Canada

Lou Kaucic

Sanbornton, NH, United States

ME

Mike Engsberg

United States

Humble Bundle Community

San Francisco, United States

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  • Lilian    Jan 29, 2021

    I didn't find Esther non phone but spoke to felistus who has promised to speak to esther and help her reschedule he payment to an amount she can pay easily

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  • Caroline    Dec 22, 2020

    Esther has promised to pay back as soon as she can

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  • Timothy    Nov 10, 2020

    Esther said Covid has affected her business badly.

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  • Timothy    Oct 8, 2020

    Esther has promised to look for a source to repay the loan by next week.

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  • Timothy    Sep 7, 2020

    Noting a has assured me that he he will make repayment on 28th of this month.

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  • Esther    Jul 29, 2020

    covid 19

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  • Esther    Jun 11, 2020

    Covid- 19 has affected my business

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  • Esther    Mar 28, 2020

    I have encountered a massive setback in paying the loan due to the current covid-19 virus. I cannot manage to carry out any more business. I will manage to make payments as soon as everything resumes back to normal.

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  • Dominic    Jan 8, 2017

    Again Esther please I have contacted her to adjust the loan so that she can make regular repayment. Thank you for accepting to adjust your loan.

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  • Dominic    Jan 2, 2017

    Thank you for accepting to adjust your loan and repay.

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  • Esther    Nov 7, 2016

    Thank you very much to all my lenders. God bless you abundantly. I will add more stock to my goods now. I am so excited. Thank you

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  • Esther    Nov 3, 2016

    I am very greatful to zidisha. since I joined I have benefited alot. I have been able to improve my business and even educate my children.My business grew from a few trays of to one thousand and over.which gives me a profit of ten to fifteen thousand a week.this time i want to try and start keeping a few chicken for broilers that is for chicken meat along side eggs there is a demand for chicken meat

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  • Esther    Oct 31, 2016

    I have just completed my loan repayment Thank you so much

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  • Esther    Oct 31, 2016

    Hi lenders
    I am grateful to you all for having enabled me to increase earnings with the loan that I had at hand. It was a great boost to my business and I say a big thank you.

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  • Esther    Jun 27, 2016

    I have encountered slight difficulty in repayment i would like to adjust my repayment to a smaller amount. Thank you for your understanding.

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  • Esther    Feb 25, 2016

    I want to thank all the lenders who have always supported me. I know it will go a long way to boost my business. Thank you.

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  • Esther    Feb 21, 2016

    I am so grateful to the lenders and the Zidisha community. My first three children have finished school and two have gotten jobs, which has now relieved me. The last loan was used to pay my son's second-year university fee and to partly boost the egg business. It has been a blessing to my family. Thanks so much.

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  • Esther    Aug 19, 2015

    I would like to thank all the lenders for the loan I have just received of ksh. 22,691.As indicated early it will go a long way to boost my business and the profits will assist in paying school fees for my children. zidisha has loan has been quite beneficial and my family.

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  • Esther    Aug 18, 2015

    I would like to thank all the lenders for their contributions which will go a long way in helping me increase my initial stock and thus increase my weekly income. Am also planning to put up a stall in a strategic place in order to lure more customers and earn more profit. With the profit i will be able to pay school fees for my children.

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  • Ngetich    Aug 15, 2015

    All the best in your loan proposal Esther

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