Pipes and power pump for irrigation

Gladys

Mombasa, Kenya

6% repaid

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Name

Gladys

Member since

February 2015

On-time repayments

134 installments • 39%

About Me

I am Gladys Wangechi, born in Nyeri county of Kenya. I am a trained teacher teaching in a local secondary school. I also do farming as a side business to supplement my salary, which is not enough to cater for all the family needs.

I am married with two children, aged 5 and 7 years old. My husband works in another city where he operates a taxi business.

My Business

I do modern farming where I grow tomatoes in a greenhouse. I started this project three years ago after undergoing training, which was conducted by an NGO that advocates for self-reliance.

It has been a wonderful experience since my land, which had been bare for many years, can now produce healthy tomatoes for family consumption and also for sale. I make about 1,500 USD per year from the sale of these tomatoes. I have plans to diversify to more crops like strawberries in the near future.

Loan Proposal

With Zidisha's support I have managed to increase my farming area to one acre from the previous half an acre. I have one green house and I have also started doing open irrigation.

For my farming to be successful, I do not rely on rainfall which has become very erratic of late due to climate change. The solution lies in doing irrigation and my source of water is a borehole which is in my compound.

With this money, I will be able to buy pipes which are needed for transporting the water and a pump for getting water from the borehole. This will definitely increase my farming production and hence more profitability.

Thank you.

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About Me

I am Gladys Wangechi born in Nyeri county of Kenya. I am a trained teacher teaching in a local secondary school. I also do farming a side business to supplement my salary which is not enough to cater for all the family needs.

I am married with two children - aged 5 and 7 years old. My husband works in another city where he operates a taxi business.

My Business

I do modern farming where I grow tomatoes in a green house. I started this project three years ago after undergoing training which was conducted by an NGO that advocates for self reliance.

It has been a wonderful experience since I my land which had been bare for many years can now produce healthy tomatoes for family consumption and also for sale. I make about 1500 USD per year from the sale of these tomatoes. I have plans to diversify to more crops like strawberry in the near future.