Vegetable farming

Jepkurui

Nakuru, Kenya

6% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Jepkurui

Member since

August 2016

On-time repayments

92 installments  •  32%

About Me

My names are Jepkurui Kibet. currently living in Kabarak Farm. Am twenty six years of age. I am the fifth born in a family of six siblings living with a single parent, my mother. We are three sisters and two brothers both my two sisters are married. My mother is not employed on a basic salary but she attends to her farm in order to make a living out of it. I Completed my primary education in Kabarak primary school in Rongai County which is my ancestral home. After my primary studies I joined Njoro girls high school, after that I joined the Kenya institute of applied sciences to persue a diploma in applied science. I moved to Nakuru thereafter in order to find myself a job which I didn’t and decided to start farming business.

My Business

My farming business deals with planting of Tomatoes and vegetables. My business is situated in kabarak farm along kabarnet road, which I can say is a strategic location for my business as many people from the area and nearby kabarak university prefer fresh tomatoes and vegetables from the farm. ,as the price is favorable. I have been in the business for the past one and half year, the sell earn me a profit of Ksh 300per week . I started it with a capital of ksh 10,000 thousand shillings, which has increased as my output has continuously expanded. My biggest challenge being expand the piece of land for production and insect pest during rainy season. With your assistance I would increase my farm and also multiply my sales as I see great income in the coming future.

Loan Proposal

I wish to buy additional peace of land and prepare my new land by digging and fencing it and also buy more seedlings,so as I can meet my growing tenders to supply to the supermarket an institution, I also wish to start a poultry farming for my mum for her to be able to buy medication for herself since she is diabetic.

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$285.00

Date disbursed

Nov 10, 2017

Repayment status

Late

Projected term

8 months

Lenders

K

Kondonassis

Bridgton, United States

seabass

New York, United States

T

tatts2000

melbourne, Australia

cyrus0302

San Francisco, United States

AltruisticSelfishnes

Chicago, United States

G

Gastao

Covilhã, Portugal

C

CavLender

Charlottesville, United States

ErikN

Stockholm, Sweden

MichaelDean

San Jose, United States

Pere

Barcelona, Spain

P

Purllyn

Dillon, United States

H

HappythroughHelp

Torrance, United States

J

Jessica

Patagonia, Argentina

N

NancyG

Victoria, Canada

HansLindgren

Uppsala, Sweden

D

Darish

Clarksville, United States

tasos

hove, United Kingdom

dajawein

Gladstone, Australia

A

aguayo

Silicon Valley, United States

yosefchayim

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

S

Scordato

Mattituck, United States

Matthew

New York, NY, United States

C

cczapp

Hilliard, United States

S

SvenWaage

Stavanger, Norway

L

loistf

Madrid, Spain

G

Goodwill

Oakland, United States

mauroandmichelle

Montreal, Canada

X

xaphoon

angouleme, France

Christopher

Copenhagen, Denmark

OlyRhys

Olympia, United States

M

mkellerman

Shanghai, China

1

1711mp

Brooklyn, United States

A

Andy

Berlin, United States

sarna

Toronto, Canada

A

alkemyst

Geneve, Switzerland

hugomesser

Blokker, Netherlands

G

gerd87

Haar, Germany

bigleaf

Nashville, United States

S

Srirachapea

Minneapolis, United States

A

amish

San Francisco, United States

U

usualsuspect

Amsterdam, Netherlands

A

AndrewC

London, United Kingdom

whiteboyinasia

Batu Ferringhi, Penang, Malaysia

B

BMcDermott

Washington, DC, United States

Parkmobile

Fort Bragg, United States

NedRyerson

Munroe Falls, United States

O

ormung13

Christchurch, New Zealand

John Makongo

Kitale, Kenya

R

rbaspinwall

United States

D

dagjomar

Trondheim, Norway

joshuacollinson

Vienna, Austria

S

sarah4d2

Saint Louis, United States

mepster

San Francisco, Ca, United States

P

Panda6689

United States

Mun

Orlando, FL, United States

Grant Xavier Storer

Seattle, Wa, United States

S

sarahb

United States

M

Medagan

San Franciso, United States

Otto Barten

Amsterdam, Netherlands

SuperMario28

Cudahy, United States

KM

KHS Microfinance

Tampa, United States

T

TZ

Singapore, Singapore

Gab

Singapore

Dave Bogard

New York, United States

Family Mueller

Petershagen, Germany

W

Wade

United States

Dean Cress

United States

JA

Jared Anthony

CT, United States

ES

Ed Sikorski

United States

YM

Yelka Mikolji

United States

F

Florian

Munich, Germany

CNV

United States

Emma

Australia

Carla

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Framework Eyewear

Utrecht, Netherlands

Donna Manton

Australia, Australia

Taylor

United States

G

GS2

Germany

JM

john meserve

United States

Aylsham Rotary

Aylsham, Norfolk, Uk, United Kingdom

SG

Sharon G

Portland, United States

N

Nick

Greater London, United Kingdom

MS

Mark S Yourek

United States

wissam

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

A

Andrei

United States

Cliff

United States

Elise E

United States

Thomas

Sweden, Sweden

V

Vidar

Oslo, Norway

T

Tom

Switzerland

I

ixeldog

atlanta, United States

K

KH

United Kingdom

TO

Thomas O'Neil

United States

WS

Warren Shen

United States

Humble Bundle Community

San Francisco, United States

chessplayer

Berlin, Germany

R

Robert

Chicago, United States

JB

James Brooks

United Kingdom

JA

Joshua Axtell

United States

Donald

United States

The Weltys

Averill Park, NY, United States

ED

Eunan Doherty

donegal ireland, Ireland

DW

Dan Winetsky

United States

WC

Walter Clarke

Phoenix, United States

Paul Buchheit

Mountain View, United States

Tyler Metcalf

Utah, United States

A

Anonymous

United States

JG

Jake Gibson and Beverly Picardo

San Francisco, United States

LM

Laurie Menke

United States

sbdoc

Reno, United States

CL

Chris loera

United States

KP

Keith Penrod

United States

FP

Fred Pratt

United States

J

JB

Germany

MK

Maya Karri

United States

GP

Giacomo Poderi

Copenhagen, Denmark

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  • Emma    Jul 15, 2018

    How are you going Jepkurui?

    We still believe in you :-) You can do it... Its not too late to start. Just please give everyone an update sometime soon so we know you're not a ghost :-) You can ask Zidisha to see if they can minimise your payments for you if they are feeling stressful :-)

    All the best, Emma from Australia.

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  • Charles    Jan 31, 2018

    Jepkurui Kibet has promised to start making her repayments by next week.

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  • Charles    Dec 22, 2017

    Jepkurui Kibet encountered serious water shortage in her farm due to lack of rain in the past few months. But she promised to start her repayment by next week.

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  • Jepkurui    Nov 10, 2017

    I kindly thank zidisha for good work of helping,Am able topay the above amount in the coming week and in the following week i will increase the payment.

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  • Jepkurui    Nov 6, 2017

    i thank my lenders for funding my loan in time, the loan will help me expand my land for more prodction.

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  • Emma    Oct 28, 2017

    Hi Jepkurui :-) You sound so lovely hun... you seem to have such a grateful heart, & its wonderful to hear you're doing well :-) Just thought I'd try help out slightly and maybe suggest you just let zidisha know if anything happens that makes it harder to make repayments. We really don't mind at all if the payments ever need to be lowered :-)

    Just wanted to let you know so your repayment rating doesn't go any lower :-) You sound lovely, and its such a pleasure to see your business growing. Just thought I'd give that tip quickly to help for the future :-)

    All the best with everything Jepkurui! Hope the vegetable farming on the additional piece of land goes wonderfully :-) Warm regards, Emma.

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  • Jepkurui    Oct 26, 2017

    Hello my lenders, I wish to thank you my lenders for you support,with my last loan I managed to purchase a piece of land in which I extended my vegetable farming, the good news is that I now manage to supply my vegetables and tomatoes to the nearby supermarket and the nearby institution,as a results my income has increased 1700 per week, also hire a car to help be transport my produce to the supermarket for my order.

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  • Jepkurui    Oct 24, 2017

    my farm production has shown great improvement

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  • Jepkurui    Apr 10, 2017

    With my new loan i Will buy more seedlings, fertilizers, insectisides for mt farm,i Will also hire a car to help be transport my produce to the supermarket for my order. I sincerely want to thank you my lenders for giving me a special chance to improve my life again thank you so much.

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  • Jepkurui    Apr 10, 2017

    Greetings to you,i wish to express my great joy to you my lenders the loan you gave me last time did a lot in my farm,i increased my farm and plant a lot in which am happy to inform you that i manage to get an order to supply my vegetables to supermarkets in nakuru.again am so greatful my lenders.

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  • Jepkurui    Nov 21, 2016

    i wish to take this Golden opportunuty to sincely thank you for giving a loan of 15,928ksh .the amount really helped me alot i bought the land and already did the fencing more so already planted my vegetables.again i say thank you so much my you be blessed more and more. i promise to work very hard to ensure i pay back my loans on time without fail.

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  • Jepkurui    Nov 3, 2016

    i do hereby sincerely thank my lenders very much for considering me and funded my loan in a day.God bless you.Now that the loan is fully funded i will extend the piece of the land, purchase fertilizers and the remaining amount for the manpower.This will go along way in assisting me increase the production.

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  • Jepkurui    Nov 3, 2016

    am glad to say a word of thank you to my lenders on their good work they have done to me, the loan i had received previously helped me to increase the piece of land and purchase of fertilizer.This increased my yield and production,after the sell of the tomatoes and cabbages i had to double the profits.
    this has made a change in my life and children.

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  • Jepkurui    Sep 29, 2016

    hi zidisha family, iam glad to be associated with this group,I feel very proud for this.i therefore feel that iam very much comfortable to pay this amount this week.

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  • Jepkurui    Sep 21, 2016

    hi zidisha family, i,m grateful to be one of the zidisha group.i feel comfortable to pay an installment of five hundred shillings on this coming installment.

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  • Jepkurui    Aug 23, 2016

    Am very much grateful to zidisha, i thank you a lot.Now that my loan is funded i will now ensure that i increase the size of acrearage. buy fertilizers and also insecticides.This will go along way assisting me increase productivity,hence my profit will go along way in promoting my living standard.
    Thank you all my lenders.

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