Mary

Mtwapa, Kenya

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Mary

Member since

January 2013

On-time repayments

357 installments  •  77%

About Me

Am mother of six children living in musumarini, Kikambala. Am a businesswoman doing my business in mtwapa and the other surrounding i do my business as door to door service. My first child is girl and she is married and settled with her husband, the second is a a girl and also married the third is a boy, he fished his secondary school education but due to unemployment, he is doing casual jobs, the fourth is a girl and also married, the fifth is a boy and is in primary school, in class six, the last is a boy and in class five. I live with my last three children in Musumarini. I started doing business because i wanted to meet my family needs.I first started with tailoring business, and later i introduced the boutique selling second hand clothes.This business really helped me with my family upkeep.With my income from the business i buy food for the family paying rent at the boutique, and paying school fees.

My Business

My business is a combined boutique and a tailoring shop, these combined businesses gives me a good help in my family upkeep. This business is doing well especially, the boutique which i do a door to door service, this business does better because i go to the customers right to their houses. with this door to door service target all age group as i meet them at their residential places this business is profitable as i get my family needs without any problem. With this business i get an income of ksh 30,000 per month. in this business my risks include, rainy season, this affects as i walk doing the door to door service so its hard to walk in such weather.With the income i get i use ksh 5,000 for my family food, ksh 4, 000 paying school fees, ksh 5 for my family expences and other family needs. i save ksh 16,000 per month, which i can use to repay my zidisha loan.

Loan Proposal

thank you so much dear members for activating my application with this being my first loan i will use this loan to buy more clothing materials of which i will put the in my tailoring shop and make my work easy because i will be selling these materials to other tailoring and as well to my clients. this will help increase my income because i will be selling and at the sometimes making them to those clients who will be buying them to me direct

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  • Ahadi    Apr 9, 2017

    All is perfect.
    Mary is a good business woman.
    Asante sana.

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    • Mary    Nov 7, 2018

      The pleasure is all mine, thank you so much for your Kind support

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$100.00

Date disbursed

Apr 11, 2013

Repayment status

On Time

Projected term

7 months

Lenders

keagan

Saskatoon, Canada

russell

leicester, United Kingdom

rioreiser

Ingolstadt, Germany

Sundstroms

Falun, Sweden

Ingela

Falun, Sweden

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ochunshoney

charlotte, United States

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