Materials for building homes

Gilbert

Luanshya, Zambia

23% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Gilbert

Member since

November 2020

On-time repayments

30 installments  •  63%

About Me

Gilbert Siwale is my name and I was born in 1999 in a family of 5. My parents worked in the mines in luanshya. I grew up liking school but we had a challenge of finances the time when the mines were privatized by the government. That was things got tough for us as family and we had to look for money. That’s how I started learning bricklaying and been doing my own business. I am not yet married and my hobbies are listening to music and playing football

My Business

I started working as a helper for a certain man who had a construction company. This company was specialized in building houses and many other types of buildings. I saw potential in myself to work on my own because I am a very fast learner. So I started my own business, I was going round farms looking for contracts to build but now am well established am known such that people just ring me on my phones and that’s how my business has been. I construct poultry houses, piggery, housing units for goats and any structures on a farm. My typical is transport of building material and labour because this job sometimes I cant do it alone so I have employed a fellow youth

Loan Proposal

I thank all dear lenders for my last loan which I have just finished repaying today. My business has really improved. I need to purchase and stock assorted building materials so that once customers needs my service am ready with all materials. This will help me to make profit. I will use the profit wisely to repay the loan and reinvest in the business as I desire to see my business grow from one level to another. I therefore appeal to lenders to help me with this loan.

Income Source

Besides my business service of building houses and chicken runs for my clients I also sell chickens. One time I worked for a farmer who failed to pay me all the money I charged him so we ended up to agree that he pays me in kind. He gave me 15 chickens as part of the payment and these are layers. So that’s how I started keeping chickens and have been selling them and they are on demand. Even where there are economic challenges people still ned to eat so with this side business I can easily repay the loan.

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  • Kirk Moore    Feb 18, 2021

    Thanks for paying back early -- I hope this means your work is going well. Best wishes.

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    • Gilbert    Feb 19, 2021

      Thanks a lot for lending to me..yes my work is going well.

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$506.00

Date disbursed

Feb 23, 2021

Repayment status

Late

Projected term

3 months

Lenders

N

Nick

United States

JH

Joseph Hwang

Houston, United States

HL

Harris Lin

New Zealand

Stefan Koshold

Mülheim, Germany

A

Anonymous

United States

Yosef

United States

KM

Kirk Moore

Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

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