Organic vegetables farming

John Bonface

Nairobi, Kenya

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

John Bonface

Member since

November 2017

On-time repayments

6 installments  •  67%

About Me

Am John Bonface Wafula Sakwa aged 40 years. I come from Kabula village, Bumula Sub-county, Bungoma county. I've always loved organic farming since my childhood although it has always challenged me due to financial constraints. I did my High School from St. Peter's Mumias and a year latter joined Missionaries of the poor in Uganda and later left to Jamaica for further formation where I trained as a nurse.. I worked there in the farm as well as in the medical Centre. I can back in the year 2008 to Kenya where I enrolled as a teacher at Universal Teachers Training College after which I enrolled at Daystar University for project Management. I enrolled later later later later for a bachelor's degree in Sustainable Human Development at Tangaza University to enable me venture into more farming.

My Business

Am doing both gardening and animal husbandry and since my farming is purely organic, am able to get manure from animals to apply in my firm and use the farm produce to feed my animals thus complementing each other. I began my agribusiness using my little savings and donations from friends. this is how I overcame my hardships. From garden produce, I made some good earnings which enabled me venture into more farming enterprises like poultry and rabbit keeping the projects that are encouraging. With the help of your loans am able to grow my agribusiness and use the profits to improve my life and the life of others. I have established Divine Mercy Children Home (orphanage) with now 30 children who will entirely benefit from my profits from the farm. I nearly make 100% profit in all my enterprises.

Loan Proposal

I will use my loan to purchase two pickups of organic manure at a cost of $140. since am carrying out purely organic farming I need manure to apply in my garden. I will use the remaining $30 to purchase seeds

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$171.00

Date disbursed

Oct 21, 2018

Repayment status

On Time

Projected term

2 weeks

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  • Wairimu    Apr 15, 2019

    Hello,

    My name is Wairimu Gathii, a Volunteer Mentor with Zidisha.

    I reached out to John, the applicant herein, with a view of establishing what his status was. He informed me that he had fallen into the hand of robbers, beaten up and injured seriously. He had to be hospitalized and this required a lot of money, destabilizing his financial situation. He seeks your kind indulgence and promises to get his account back on track.

    Wishing him a speedy recovery.

    Wairmu Gathii, VM.

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  • John Bonface    Nov 28, 2018

    When the project is does well my main beneficiaries are my orphans at Divine Mercy children Home and School.

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  • John Bonface    Nov 28, 2018

    I wish to sincerely thank you my lenders for the loan you have given me. I will use my loan to purchase materials for expanding my rabbit project which is doing well.

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  • John Bonface    Oct 18, 2018

    Dear friends, Bing-Shu pan and Johannes for supporting my project. Am carrying out organic farming and I needed a loan to purchase organic manure and seeds. your support on time will enable plant on time, and increase my produce and therefore increase profit

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  • John Bonface    Sep 26, 2018

    there was an increase in my sales and since am expecting to grow in my business, I wish to grow in my loan limit with Zidisha

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  • William    Jan 20, 2018

    Hi John . hope your project is doing well. just wishing you all the best and to give you tips on how to remain eligible for higher credit limit. You just need to maintain ontime repayment to a 100% and not bellow 90% to the list.You can also choose to be a volunteer mentor.ALL THE BEST.

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  • John Bonface    Jan 13, 2018

    My income has increased so I like to pay my loan faster

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