Poultry farming

Mathew

Kitonyini Village, Kenya

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Mathew

Member since

October 2014

On-time repayments

94 installments  •  66%

About Me

I am a pastor in one of the dry areas of machakos district kenya. I am the 8th born of a family of 10. During my primary education, I had to drop from school to go and work as a herds boy for three years before going back to school. I grew up in abject poverty that is why I like empowering young people.
As a pastor I like teaching young people life skills and identifying their potential.
I also registired a business firm on investiments.

My Business

As a pastor and a teacher, I get some allowances from the pastoral ministry as well as from teaching. Besides this, I have some investments through my business firm where I have a farm for growing some crops for sale. I use what I get for educating my children as well as meeting the basic needs of my family. I have noted that there is a high demand of indigenous chicken and so I felt I can venture into poultry and help the youths in the church to establish some income. I would like also to diversify my project to include dairy keeping due to high demand for milk.

Loan Proposal

With this loan I shall use it to construct a dairy unit where I should prepare my self for dairy cattle. I shall buy material for the unit worth 10,000 KES, employ a mason to do the work 6,000 KES and other casuals workers who will assist the mason in that work for 5,000 KES. I shall buy water tank for 9,000 KES and hay for 5,000 KES. This will be in readiness for the dairy project. 10,000 KES will go to insurance while 7251 KES will go towards purchase of an heifer.

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$521.00

Date disbursed

Jan 27, 2016

Repayment status

On Time

Projected term

4 months

Lenders

F

flaguy999

Tampa, United States

WE

Wendy Emlyn

Devon, United Kingdom

PG

Paul Graham

United States

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  • Mathew    Oct 7, 2019

    I would like to apply for a loan now

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  • Mathew    Aug 21, 2018

    I want to clear my out standing loan. You can confirm the amount

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  • Benedict    Jan 12, 2018

    Hi lenders,
    My efforts to reach mathew were fruitless.I wil keep trying & keep you posted.

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  • Mathew    Oct 27, 2016

    I had a financial challenge but once it improves I shall adjust accordingly.

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  • Mathew    Aug 4, 2016

    Due to the increase of animal feeds

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  • Mathew    Jul 25, 2016

    Thank you for the loan. I have now received the full amount. It will go along way to boost my project.

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  • Mathew    Jul 20, 2016

    Thank you for the loan, this will help me boost my poultry business as I indicated earlier. I shall extend the poultry house and buy a cage. Thank you so much.

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  • Wendy Emlyn    Mar 21, 2016

    Thanks for keeping up with your payments so well this time, Mathew.
    God bless you,
    Wendy

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  • Oscar    Oct 27, 2015

    Dear Lenders ,Matthew Promised to Update His Loan Account As soon as things work Out for His he had some few Challenges,with His Business but soon he will Settle His Zidisha Loan.
    Thank you

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  • Mathew    Aug 11, 2015

    I am adjusting my finances to take shorter time

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  • Mathew    Jul 12, 2015

    I am reorganising myself so that from August I can re adjust upward

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  • Mathew    Jul 5, 2015

    I'm sorry i have some challenge with the current installments and would wish to reduce it to some smaller amount for now.Thanks in advance.

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  • Oscar    Jun 11, 2015

    Dear Lender i tried calling Mathew but his phone was unreachable i will try to contact one of him contact person and update you within the week.
    Thank you
    Oscar Alochi

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  • Mathew    May 18, 2015

    The change is for a short time then go back to the old schedule

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  • Benedict    May 16, 2015

    Mathew,
    It's impressing the way you respond to follow ups .You really did a great job at least to pay something!.All of us here borrow because we are needy and we are prone to repayment challenges,so not a big deal.Mathew press on! i know your doors to breakthrough will open wide and all will be fine.I have got several needy borrowers who have been locked out simply because my current invitees have not met deadlines,so Zidisha is not growing! Let's go an extra mile to offset , this will be a blessing to my new invitees.

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  • Mathew    May 7, 2015

    The project is going on well. Only that I had some financial challenges making me delay in payments but organising clear the balances the soonest.

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    • Benedict    May 8, 2015

      hi mathew,
      thanks for the update.i would advise you dont skip payments completely.Atleast pay some amount as you wait to offset.Again,atleast time frame,when exactly do you intend to clear?I sent you a message on your phone.Thanks for breaking the silence.

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  • Mathew    Apr 3, 2015

    Thank you so much. I have received the loan of ksh 34,834. I have bobought 250 chicks.

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  • Benedict    Mar 20, 2015

    Hi Mathew,
    Nice to hear the loans are helping you!
    My advice here:I have always noticed lenders get impressed by at least snapshots of the progress.With photos you could inspire other people to begin the same projects elsewhere.That's a plus to the community.

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  • Mathew    Mar 19, 2015

    Thank you so much for the loan. I am doing well so far in the business and would like to expand it. In that connection, I would like to apply for another loan of ksh 35120.

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  • Mathew    Mar 17, 2015

    I am grateful to all the lenders for the loan that has assisted me to start the project. As I mentioned earlier the next loan I intend to increase the chicks and also diversify the project.

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