Renting a storeroom for my clothing business

Ruth Harriet

Berekum, Ghana

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Ruth Harriet

Member since

March 2015

On-time repayments

90 installments  •  27%

About Me

My name is Serwaa Ruth Harriet. I come from Berekum in the Brong Ahafo Region. I am 32 years old. I started my basic education at AKAB Complex School at Berekum and continued at Techiman Senior Secondary school. After completing, I decided to continue my tertiary education in one of the tertiary institutions, but due to financial difficulties I was withdrawn from college. I am now married and blessed with two boys.
When I was in the secondary school, I developed a habit of selling so when I was withdrawn from college, I started a petty trading. I was engaged in the selling of onion, garden eggs, tomatoes, pepper and many more. I entered into the selling of clothes in 2012 with a based capital of about 600 dollars.
I am punctual at church, decent and humble. I am currently the church youth group.

My Business

I started my clothes business in 2012 with a based capital of about 600 dollars. This money was raised from a profit I had when I was in a petty trading. I entered into clothes selling after studying the market in the area where I am living. I saw that there is nobody living in the area and sells clothes. The people who sells clothes to us are all from different areas so I decided to change my petty trading to clothes selling.
At first it was difficult in getting customers but when people find out that I was in clothes business, they all started coming to me. Now when there is a programme in my community and even my church, people order clothes from me. People in my area and church trust me a lot so sometimes, I am giving the to buy them clothes that I am not having. I am able to make a profit of about 75 dollars in a week. I use some of the profit to pay for my children school fees.
I am looking forward to expand my business by renting a store room to display my clothes. And also be able to employ people to help me distribute my clothes. I estimate about 3000 dollars for my expansion work.
REPAYMENT
I will be able to repay any loan offered me from the profit from the sale of the clothes.

Loan Proposal

I want to expand my business by renting a storeroom to display my clothes so that the type of clothes people want can be easily been identify. I will also buy additional clothes to make the place more beautiful. The cost of a storeroom is about 30 dollars per month so a year is about 360 a year. The cost of a cloth is also 40 dollars. This will help me to increase to 50 dollars per week and it will help me to add new assistance and also help me to continue my children education.

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$194.00

Date disbursed

Jun 16, 2015

Repayment status

On Time

Projected term

7 weeks

Lenders

mbunifu

San Jose, United States

Josua

Brittnau, Switzerland

R

rcmssr

Woodbury, United States

Zidisha

Sterling, United States

sebastienrosa

Quebec, Canada

Krtecek

Balzers, Liechtenstein

M

marcelitohb

Bremen, Germany

joaoferraz

RINCHOA, Portugal

T

Taupe

Balzers, Liechtenstein

T

thebonseung

Republic of Korea

B

benlenarts

Netherlands

Paul Buchheit

Mountain View, United States

J

jay12

Germany

mepster

San Francisco, Ca, United States

T

Tim47

United States

M Jordan

United States

Alberto Cereser

Copenhagen, Denmark

MW

Matt Willis

United States

Mouhamed

United States

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