Tution for university degree in education

Olga

Nairobi, Kenya

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Entrepreneur

Name

Olga

Member since

August 2015

On-time repayments

31 installments • 10%

About Me

My names are Olga Mitchelle Achieng, I was brought up by a single mother. She was strong and hardworking and this gave me courage to move on and work hard even at times when I was low. I never had a chance to see my father because he passed on when I was very young, only 3years old, but they never got married.

Things were never smooth when I was a child. My mum was the youngest in the family and a bread winner for her family. She would go out do manual jobs like washing clothes, cooking in occasions and cleaning houses to earn a living to enable her meet our bills like house rent, medical bills for her mother who later past on in the year 2004 and my school fees.
Life was was very challenging in the year 2010 when I joined high school. My beautiful mum had a serious injury on her right knee and this took three years to heal even landing her in India for a 3rd surgery when friends and relatives came together to raise funds for treatment in India. It was a very trying moment for us when she was away in India for two months. Even when she came back from India in crutches, she would still go out hawking groundnuts on the streets to earn a living for us. She struggled to see me through high school education and I did not disappoint her and managed to attain good results in my final year exams in 2014. I attained a grade B with 64 POINTS and was admitted to the university. Am now proudly ready to join university on 1st September, 2015.

My Business

Immediately after my high school I decided to sell kids clothes, shoes and socks to earn some small cash and support my mum. It is the norm for women get babies and so I felt children's clothes would sell faster. I chose to concentrate on selling jumpers and sweaters since it was the cold season. My charges sweaters and jumpers range between 200 KES AND 300 KES while shoes sell between 250 KES and 700KES.

Since I am joining university I hope to use my profit in assisting my mum to pay part of my fees. I understand her situation and know how hard it has been for her to bring me up and with her continuing struggle she has still extended support from her meager income to her three adapted kids.
She adapted three girls aged 15years, 13years and 6 years. I envy my mum's big heart and want to support her in feature after my studies.

With Zidisha's support, I believe I will go very far in my studies and look forward to achieve the very best in my life.

Loan Proposal

I want to buy required books for my studies, the books will cost me upto 150$. This will enable me begin my studies at the university on 1st September 2015. I'll be able to study hard and make my mum proud for she is not financially able to support all my needs but it's her desire that I study to the highest level, and so she works day and night to see this come to pass.