Growing my shop

Walter

Uhanya Beach, Kenya

60% paid forward

Entrepreneur

Name

Walter

Member since

January 2015

On-time repayments

259 installments  •  87%

About Me

My name is Walter Ndege Okungu okeyo i was born 30th August 1984in a family of eight, seven boy and a girl and am the 4th born, I joined rapogi primary school in 1992 to2000 where I did my kcpe later I join otieno oyoo secondary school in2001 up to 2004 then i join chemelil driving school in 2005 later in 2008 I got employed by east african sea food company up to 2010 since then I started doing business. The year 2013 I got married to my lovely wife RHODA a year later we are blessed with a daughter.life became difficult when i lost my parents in the year 1996 then my uncle took care of us.my people are fishermen.my daughter wants to be a doctor when she grow up.my free time i like walking a long the beach and listening to music

My Business

My business is dealing food and beverage, I started it in the year 2008 with the savings I got from where I was employed, and am hoping to add more stock if you give me that loan.being that people around here are fishermen and some of them don't have their wives around,they come to my place to eat.i started it because my father was in that business before.Am getting between 5 to 8 dollars a week.my daughter is still young so i use the profit i get to grow my business.

Project Proposal

I'll use the money to increase and renovate my shop .I'm going to buy more stock to enable my customers to be able to get what they want at time, I'll also renovated shop and also expand the space

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Project Info

Project Type

Pay It Forward

Disbursed amount

$299.00

Date disbursed

Jun 4, 2023

Backers

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Divergent

Bethesda, United States

Cloudways

Malta, Malta

nmatpt

Lisboa, Portugal

MrMichigander

Marquette, United States

Josephine

Umoja Innercore, Kenya

Maxwell

Kigumo Town, Kenya

Framework Eyewear

Utrecht, Netherlands

Cliff

United States

MP

Minah Park

Republic of Korea

P

Phips

Switzerland

D

Dalton

San Francisco, United States

Elizabeth

Eldoret, Kenya

Ridho

Jambi, Indonesia

Gilbert

Nakuru, Kenya

R

Ru

New York, United States

Y

Yaser

Germany

A

Anonymous

United States

L

Lucy

Nairobi, Kenya

Leah

Kisumu, Kenya

S

Sebestian

Malindi, Kenya

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  • Walter    Jun 4, 2023

    Hello lenders and the entire Zidisha family am grateful for the support and the donation you have done to I want to promise that am going to do my best to repay on time an am also going to increase space for my shop and also to add more stock so my customers will get good available whenever they need it.

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  • Maxwell    Jun 3, 2023

    Hi Walter hope it helps

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    • Walter    Jun 3, 2023

      It's help a lot and I would like to continue being a Zidisaha member

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  • Walter    Feb 2, 2020

    If your loan expired how longer Will it take you to apply again

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  • Walter    Feb 2, 2020

    I would like to say thaks to my lenders since the loan you me gave brought abig change in my life,i wuold like to request you to help me again in my next loan thanks in advance.

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  • Walter    Jan 29, 2020

    Hi lenders i would like to inform you the money that i got from zidisha i use to improve my mpesa business, the business really changed my leaving standard by paying my kids and house rent, hospital i also went as far as opening another shop for selling chicken feeds am glad that have already pay my loan and i wuold like to request another loan at least to improve my shop
    Thank my lenders may God bless abandantly

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  • Walter    Dec 25, 2019

    Market is bad and back to school effect

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  • Walter    Nov 4, 2019

    am sick and i cant manage to pay hospital bill at the same time pay istallment of 1500

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  • Walter    Sep 10, 2019

    Am requesting to reduce or change my instalment amount deu to bad business season

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  • Walter    Feb 23, 2019

    Am very sorry to post this on this page it's force me I paid my installment of 3400 on 2/21/2019 up to date it has not been credited to my account have try even using help page and also sending an email all this has turn to dust please I need help because this affect my credit status this is the transaction ID NBL11C9ZGX Confirmed. Ksh3,400.00 sent to Zidisha Inc. for account 24942857 on 21/2/19 at 9:30 PM New M-PESA balance is Ksh1,058.19. Transaction cost, Ksh34.00.

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  • Walter    Dec 13, 2018

    For the last five months I was attack by handrobers whom took business money they injured me seriously this has made my business not on agood move that's why I have requested my driver's instalment to be reduce if possible.

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  • Walter    Oct 11, 2018

    I have not been able to continue with my loan instment since there is decreasing in my business income since the economy is
    very high

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  • Walter    Jan 3, 2018

    Dear lenders am much grateful and thank full for your ability and support that you've done to make sure that my loan is fully funded on time. I'll make sure that my Mpesa and Airtel money transfer business is having adiquate money for my customers this is going to give plus in my life since am going to have enough money for customers (many customers more profit). Am thankful to my lenders and all zidisha team may God bless you all plus your family.

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  • Walter    Dec 20, 2017

    I buy plastic chairs for my restaurant this purchase attracted more customers since they were sure of everything they want. This has also increase my profit to almost 20 %.I also buy MPESA AND AIRTEL MONEY TILL also i pay my NHIF bill and my daughter and son school fees. I took my family to holidays like music festival in our community. Am glad also to inform all zidisha members to area so that they can see the type fishing method we do

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  • Walter    Dec 19, 2017

    I used my last loan to buy plastic chairs for my restaurant, by buying all these things my customers increase in number, which increases my profit to almost 15 %this increment i use to buy MPESA AND AIRTEL MONEY TILL i also pay my NHIF bill and my children school fees i also took my daughter and son to deferent holidays like music festival in our community.

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  • Walter    Dec 19, 2017

    Dear zidisha team am great full with your support towards my loan the money you donated to my loan application has helped me a lot it has bring big changes in my life I buy MPESA and Airtel money till it also help me pay NHIF bill and also pay my children school fees all this i did just because money you donated to my loan. May God help you and bless the work of hands

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  • Walter    Dec 19, 2017

    I used my last loan to buy plastic chairs for my restaurant, by buying all these things my customers increase in number which also increases my profit by 15%the increment i use to buy MPESA AND AIRTEL MONEY TILL this also help me pay NHIF bill it also help my family a lot since i use part of profit to my children school fees. We also went to deferent holidays like music festival in our community thanks to all zidisha team whom volunteer to donate for my loan.

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  • Walter    Dec 19, 2017

    I used my last loan to buy plastic chairs for my restaurant, by buying chairs has increase the number of customers since there is adequate chairs, for that my profit percentage increase up to 15%which i used to buy MPESA AND AIRTEL MONEY TILL it has also help me pay NHIF bill also my children benefit a lot since part of profit i use to pay their school fees we attend music festival in our community as our culture says

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  • Walter    Dec 19, 2017

    I used my last loan to buy plastic chairs for my restaurant this purchase attracted more customers to my restaurant since there was adequate chairs it also increases my profit to almost 15 %i use my increase to buy MPESA AND AIRTEL MONEY TILL i also pay my NHIF bill this also help me to pay my daughter and son school fees i also attend our traditional music festival

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