Entrepreneur
Name
Josphat
Member since
February 2015
On-time repayments
241 installments • 48%
About Me
My names are Josphat obuya, I hail from Kisii county, Nyanza province. I was born 24/11/1990. I started school in 1997 at a local school since our family was one of the poorest in the village. Di spate all this challenges in life i sat my primary level certificate which i was among the top students in the district but the fact that my family was poor, i joined the local secondary school in the year 2004 and did my secondary education in the year2008 and I attained Good grades .After this i did poultry farming for one year that enabled me to join college to do a Diploma in Business management. All this period poultry has been supporting me and my family and i really what to do modern poultry farming to go as per the growth of technology. My dream is to be the leading poultry farmer in the county the reason why i request you to assist me a loan to enable me increase my flock to meet the market demand in the area.Poultry has really enabled me to overcome life challenge the reason why i love it and i will do in the whole of my life to enable my children to have a better life and to go to good schools and help the society with the education and the skills they get. This will bring a positive impact to the society hence eradicate poverty and food security problem.My hobby has been giving back to the community
My Business
am have been doing business for long untill these year I got contract to supply pigs to a company ,the business fetches good money,I already have started with three pigs after two months now I have 20 piglets.with you help I know I can manage to reach 100 piglets by the end of next year. The demand for this products is high in the county due to the fact that they solve healthy problems and are save to consume and easier to cook. They are also good for farming as most of the population are farmers Also the population of the county is growing from time to time and i am really struggling to meet the demand of this products . I want to increase the number of birds to one thousand and this will mean satisfying some of the demands from my customers and making an average monthly income of Kshs200000 per month. I will use the profits to reinvestment,pay school fees and the other to start empowering projects to empower women and youths in the county thus giving back to the community
Loan Proposal
When i get the loan i will use half of the money to buy more seeds of blue gum cyplus,pine flowers and more indiginous trees .i will use another 80 dollars to buy papers for transplanting of the seedlings on the remaining 40 dollars i will use them for human labour to help me to transplant the seeds within a month .in the previous nursary i have around 20 000 blue gum and other types of trees in the next few days it will start raining(el nino)rains ,the rains will increase the demand of the seedlings coz the rain helps for transplaning o f the seedlings ,i want to continue with this project becouse i have a ready market and during this el nino rain season there will be many clients buying the seedlings and the community based organisation have already agreed with them to supply to them the seedlings untill January .if you lender me these amount i will be able to increase my profit to 150%
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Loan Info
Project Type
Classic Loan
Disbursed amount
$223.00
Date disbursed
Oct 24, 2015
Repayment status
On Time
Projected term
9 months
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Lenders
Fontvielle, Monaco, Yemen
United States
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Ed Apr 25, 2017
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