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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Payments Forward

Amount returned to the platform for this project

$185.73

Pay It Forward Projects funded by Walter

$215 (17 Projects)

Projects funded by Walter's Pay It Forward recipients

$21,233 (498 Projects)

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