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Jemimah

Ongata Rongai, Kenya

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Entrepreneur

Name

Jemimah

Member since

January 2014

On-time repayments

46 installments • 35%

About Me

I'm a christian, married and we have been blessed with one beautiful baby girl of 29 months. I live in Ongata Rongai in Kajiado county.
I have O' Level Certificate and I'm also computer literate.
I started my business so that i could be able to help supplement my husband's income.
The earnings that i get from my business i normally use it to pay utility bills of our household and save the rest for a 'rainy day' or emergencies that may arise either in the household or in my business.
I will pay back my loan using earnings from my business.

My Business

I sell babies and ladies second hand clothes commonly known as mitumba. They are grade A or grade 1 of clothes and these are fondly called 'camera'. This is because they are slightly worn clothes and are also near to being new clothes. I sell the clothes from my house and i also do hawking of the clothes in the neighborhood or the city center.
I live in a middle class estate and people from these side of town most of them cannot afford brand new clothes. This is because brand new clothes are expensive to most of them.
Mitumba clothe on the other hand are way cheaper compared to the brand new clothes. They are also fro reputable fashion houses in the world. They are also of good quality fabric wise and you spend less for more clothes unlike the brand new clothes. And for the above reasons mitumba comes as their first option when buying clothes.
In a month i make a profit of Kshs 15,000 equating to Kshs 180,000 annually.
The first risk my business encounters is when delivering clothes to people's houses. You must have transport that will take you to the delivery place, if you don't have then you loose on the business as no sales will be made. The second risk i encounter in my business is when hawking the clothes in the city center. The city council 'askaris' will always be on our case as we have no license to do business in the city and this will culminate to hawkers being chased away from the city center by use of teargas.

Loan Proposal

Get new towel stock. One towel cost 580/=.Selling price will be 1800 each. This will bring in 12600/=.Profit will be 8540/=.They are super heavy towels. The profit I will making will enable me to pay back the loan. With the loan I will be able to get 7 towels. From the profit I will be able to pay my loan and increase the towel stock.