T-shirt branding machine

Samuel

Nairobi, Kenya

25% paid forward

Entrepreneur

Name

Samuel

Member since

April 2014

On-time repayments

330 installments  •  98%

About Me

I was born 36 years ago in Kangari location Murang'a county. Am married to a wife and am father of two boys . I grew up in the village where my mum and my late father were small scale farmers. I got my education up to high school level. After my certificates I was not able to proceed to college because my other siblings were also in school and my mum single handedly could not afford. After high school I helped my mum in farming for two years after which I got a casual job in the capital Nairobi. The company didn't offer any unskilled personnel a parmanent job. So I decided to save for college fees. After two years I had not saved enough for the fees and I decided to venture in strawberry farming and I stopped working to concentrate on farming. I like farming, playing badminton and hanging out with kids.

My Business

I ventures into graphic design and printing which i had a lot of interests in when i was young, Kenya being a developing country needs alot of paper work and printing in general, then there are so many upcoming companies that needs advertisements inform of flyers, brochures, banners, stickers and company logs e.t.c.
From this business i pay my bills pay school fees for my children and i also make random visit to children home once a month.
I was doing farming only and this Zidisha platform helped me and i started this business from scratch which has also employed four other people.

Project Proposal

I have been in printing business for the longest time now. There is demand in every corner of this country for braded t-shirts, aprons, reflectors, school uniforms and many more and since the Kenya stopped the use of polythene papers, braded woven carrier bags have taken over the space and hence the need for my printing business to add more machines to cover need in the market.
Adding more machines will create more employment vacancy and an extra coin as a profit for my business growth.
After getting the machine am hoping to get a 50% increment in profit within the next three months.

Feedback

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  • JimVandegriff    Apr 10, 2018

    Excellent repayment on this long term loan. Great job.

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    • Samuel    Apr 14, 2018

      Thanks, I always have an alarm as my reminder for zidisha loan repayment.

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Project Info

Project Type

Pay It Forward

Disbursed amount

$987.00

Date disbursed

Oct 18, 2023

Backers

D

Divergent

Bethesda, United States

Kevin

San Francisco, United States

C

cota

United States

G

GS2

Germany

DO

Denis Ontiveros

Guildford, United Kingdom

Tor Tertseagha

Gboko, Nigeria

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