Leah

Mtwapa, Kenya

70% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Leah

Member since

January 2013

On-time repayments

11 installments  •  36%

About Me

my names are leah wakio mwandoe, i live in mtwapa Kenya in mombasa. am married i live with my husband here in mtwapa i have one children,he is a boy he is called Noah kalama and he is twenty two years of age, and i lice with him here in mtwapa.my education background is form level of kenya primary level. after finishing my secondary level i could not able to proceed on with my university collage. instead i got a job that i did work for fifteen years and later i quite the job ad decided to do the business. i started this business because i wanted to get more money so that i can improve my living standard for me and for my family. my occupation as it starnds for now is business am doing business.with my earnings from this business i do purchase things like food for my family and afford pay school fees for my son who has now giving me a relive after him being finished his schooling career.now am facing with some challenges with my business the business has now been on target by many clients who are coming every now and then but my stocking has been everyday very less or little and this because my stock is less so with this loan that i now applying to zidisha i need this loan to raise my business by buying more stock and add into my shop so that i can sell more and get more profit.

My Business

my business is a retail shop business .here in mikanjuni i sell thing like bread sugar kerosine cooking oil washing powder wheat flour maize flour sodas and many more.there is a good demand of this goods and services here in mtwapa mikanjuni since the shop it has been in a high populated are the business is very high and the demand of this business here is very high due of the many people who are living in here.my clients prefer buying goods from my shop because the prices of my goods are reasonable and fair to them this is why they come and to buy from me every now and then. this business is profitable because am buying most of all my products from the whole sale where am being given a whole sale prices and after buying and sell them int my shop am getting a good profit out of that so it is profitable in this business.the running monthly cost of this business is kenya shillings 45, 000 and my monthly sales revenues is kenya shillings 75,000 this is now giving me a nett monthly profit of kenya shillings 30,000. with the profit that am now getting from this business i now stand a better chance of paying this loan of which am now applying to zidisha. and when given this loan i will be able to increase my stock of goods at my shop.

Loan Proposal

Thank you all zidisha team am very proud of you. with this loan am going to use it wisely by adding more stocks of goods or items into retail shop. this is buy adding more products like wheat flour.maize flour and suger. this will be able to raise up my business and make me raise my daily income into my business . am going to increase these things because they are the ones on demand in this area.

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$500.00

Date disbursed

Feb 27, 2013

Repayment status

Late

Projected term

12 months

Lenders

Kitty

Hailsham, United Kingdom

K

Krokslatt

Mölndal, Sweden

T

Tec69200

Jacksonville, United States

Zidisha

Sterling, United States

jpterry

Port Richey, United States

J

jjonas

berlin, Germany

EmilAsker

Lomma, Sweden

russell

leicester, United Kingdom

Sundstroms

Falun, Sweden

pentatonicscale

Niiza-shi, Japan

Echo

Wellington, New Zealand

A

Aaron

Zurich, Switzerland

skullyjo

Winnipeg, Canada

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