Liquidizer (blender) for increasing juice production

Entrepreneur

About Me

My name is Rafael Baccah, and I live in Accra, the capital of Ghana.
I am the firstborn of three siblings.

In May 2018, my brother completed his Bachelor of Science Degree in I.T. at the
University of Ghana. Since September 2018, he has been doing his National Service (required of university graduates, for one year after, after earning a bachelor's degree).

Our sister, who is our youngest sibling, works as a make-up artist. She also has interest in training to become an airline hostess/stewardess (flight attendant).

Currently, in 2019, I am in my early thirties. My brother is in his late-twenties, and our sister is in her early twenties.

As the eldest sibling, I sometimes have helped my parents help my younger siblings.
They have not been able to help them often, and I have not often been able to help, either. However, whenever I could assist, I was happy to do it, as it has given me an inner joy and sense of fulfillment.

I working two jobs, one full-time and the other part-time.

In May 2019, I started a new job, working Mondays through Fridays as an administrative assistant at a school for students of all levels through high school, in one of the suburbs of Accra. (Previously, I had worked as an administrative assistant at a different school. The new school is larger.)

On weekends, I have been running a small juicing business (described below).

Children and nature always have fascinated me, hence my decision to work at a school and to start a business producing natural fruit juices.

My Business

My dream is to own a small farming outfit, where my workers would enjoy the basics of life: proper education for their children, and decent housing with good living conditions. Crops that would be grown would be mainly fruits, such as pineapples and mangoes, which would be processed into juices.

Currently, I source pineapples and other fruits from local farmers.
I then produce freshly squeezed fruit juices, which I sell on weekends to joggers,
who jog up the hill from Ayi Mensah to Peduase (Saturdays) and McCarthy Hills (Sundays).

Loan Proposal

If my loan request is approved and funded, it would help me to put together enough money to purchase a more-efficient liquidizer (blender) for producing fruit juices.

On my list of machines eventually to buy are:

1. "Vitamix" Liquidizer (Blender)
2. "Fabio Leonardi" Tomato Crusher (works well for juicing pineapples, too)
3. Digital Weighing Scale

Also, I like to keep a detailed record of all of our business operations, including income and expenses, so on my list of future purchases are a decent laptop computer and a dongle (USB drive), as well.

These machines/equipment would make our juicing business more efficient, increasing our production by up to 70%. They would breathe new life into the outfit, and a better blender would be a good start. Thank you.

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