Restocking my shop

Andrew

Lusaka, Zambia

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Andrew

Member since

June 2015

On-time repayments

217 installments  •  94%

About Me

Andrew Chinambu is a youth development expert and a serial young social entrepreneur with business interests in mobile money payment solutions, and a co-founder of a social enterprise called Campus Community Foundation (CCF), that seeks to promote and champion youth development, entrepreneurship and leadership to university and college students in Zambia. Andrew is also an Award winning entrepreneur of the 2012-13 series INDIAFRICA Essay writing competition, 2014 INDIAFRICA Young Visionaries Fellowship Programme and attented an entrepreneurs Bootcamp in New Delhi, India and was a Winner and Finalist of the INDIAFRICA Business Venture Competition 2014 in Accra, Ghana. Andrew currently holds a Bachelors degree in Mass Communication from the University of Zambia.

My Business

I am currently running a profit making venture with the core business in mobile money solutions. This venture has been in existence for over three years and now I wish to seek for financial support and try to grow with the service and product offerings. I now wish to expand my agency business under the Zambia National Commercial Bank (ZANACO) Xpress Agent and help ease the challenge of deposits and withdraws from the limited number of ATMs around my community. I basically want to increase the services and product offerings so that customers can easily receive and send money via the Airtel and MTN money platforms. I wish to include Zanaco as it is Zambia's biggest commercial bank with the widest footprint across the country. With increased services and products, I can therefore anticipate an increase in my profit (commissions) margins I receive.
It's against this background that my application for this loan is to basically help me secure funds that will make it possible for my services and products to be increased thereby positioning my shop relevant to the everyday needs of the customers out there. The loan will enable me order more stock in terms of float on all the three networks.
The profits that will be generated off this venture will assist me in repaying my Zidisha loan as well as help me in my daily operational costs for running my mobile money payment solution and my daily livelihood.

Loan Proposal

I intend to buy more stock (Inventories) for my phone accessories shop so as to return and keep my clients. The stock I intend to buy includes but not limited to mobile phone covers, headsets, mobile phone batteries, screen protectors and mobile phone pouches for various phone models. This loan will ultimately increase my stock levels which will translate in increased profit margins. The total cost of the listed items above will cost approximately $195.00 to buy and will ultimately give me an estimated profit of roughly $40.00 after selling all the products to my customers.

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$183.00

Date disbursed

Mar 11, 2016

Repayment status

On Time

Projected term

4 months

Lenders

A

andyfletcher

I want my "My loans" page back, Qatar

Zidisha

Sterling, United States

G

guenter

Bremen, Germany

Matching Fund

Sterling, United States

Paul Buchheit

Mountain View, United States

M

Marco

Germany

Roy

Espoo, Finland

PG

Paul Graham

United States

J

Juan

Netherlands

Douglas St Quintin

Sydney, Australia

TF

Tom Fawcett

United States

Diego

Monza, Italy

roark22

Geneva, Switzerland

H

Heather

United States

The Zinc Team

San Francisco, United States

P

Peggy

United States

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  • Andrew    Jan 27, 2021

    I can not afford to make the weekly repayment amount.

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  • Andrew    Jan 11, 2021

    Hi

    I would like to reduce my weekly repayment due to the financial pressures being experienced at the moment and will increase once I have my income lines stable.

    Kind regards
    Andrew

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  • Andrew    Dec 27, 2020

    My cash flow has been impacted lately. I will revert to my normal payment mode once I am financially stable.

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  • Andrew    Nov 8, 2020

    I am unable to repay the full amount due to financial difficulties during this period.

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  • Andrew    Aug 19, 2020

    Hi Zidisha

    Please note that I am unable to make my weekly repayments due to slow business response due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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  • Andrew    Jun 6, 2020

    In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, my business model has been impacted and would like to reduce my weekly repayments to ZMW 101 for the next five weeks.

    Regards
    Andrew

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  • Andrew    Apr 15, 2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic has had an adverse effect on the running of the business hence has negatively affected the business model of mobile money in Lusaka.

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  • Andrew    Mar 22, 2020

    I had a trouble business downward swing in the couple of few weeks.

    I hope to regain my position in the coming few days.

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  • Andrew    Dec 25, 2019

    I am unable to make the full weekly repayments at the moment.

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  • Andrew    Nov 17, 2019

    Hi team Zidisha,

    I am unable to make the weekly repayment due to the reduced cash flow from my businesses.

    I will increase my weekly repayment going forward.

    Regards,
    Andrew Chinambu

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  • Andrew    Oct 27, 2019

    The business suffered a loss hence I need additional time to recover before I can fully commit to make my set weekly repayment.

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  • Andrew    Sep 23, 2019

    The business is somewhat low hence I would like to have my weekly repayment to be reduced for the next coming five installments.

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  • Andrew    Aug 22, 2019

    My business is currently slow at the moment. Will pay more when the profit margins improve in the near future.

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  • Andrew    Jun 30, 2019

    I am still trying to settle down in my new business venture hence I need a bit more time to ensure that I start getting tangible returns to ensure that I can make my full weekly payments.

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  • Andrew    Jun 4, 2019

    Thank you to all lenders for disbursing my loan application.

    I have received my loan application in full.

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  • Andrew    Jun 4, 2019

    I am currently monitoring the new additional booth that I have deployed before I can commit to make my full weekly amount that I submitted when I applied for the Zidisha loan.

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  • Andrew    May 26, 2019

    Thank you for fully funding my loan application.

    I will use the funds to be disbursed to me to expand my network of agency business in my community.

    All the best,
    Andrew Chinambu

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  • Andrew    May 23, 2019

    Dear Lenders,

    I am internally happy for the past loan that has helped me open two additional agents within my community to provide mobile money services which is a booming sector in my country as the Government is pushing the financial inclusion agenda for everyone.

    Many thanks for your continued support to all entrepreneurs across the region.

    Andrew Chinambu

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  • Andrew    Dec 6, 2018

    I am having financial challenges to pay the set weekly amounts. I would therefore like to reduce the amounts for my next 5 payments.

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  • Andrew    Oct 31, 2018

    Dear Zidisha,

    I write to request that my weekly repayments are reduced to a K125 per week so that I do not default on my weekly payments.

    Thanks.

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