Vegetables farming

Entrepreneur

About Me

I am Faith, a mother of one boy and a nurse establishing herself. I have grown up wanting to be an independent lady and a role model to my siblings.

I started agribusiness farming 10 months ago in my home area after securing my previous loans from Zidisha. I managed to have two dairy cows and sustained my vegetable farm, where I have been getting some good harvest. Currently my farm is doing good: on the farm is a plantation of cabbages and I expect to be harvesting in early July. Having now established my vegetable farm and gotten a good market, I want to sustain the project with the earnings gotten from the farm as I venture into another income-generating project. With the three loans I have gotten on this platform, I have seen my income grow, which is being supplemented with my salary earnings as a nurse.

Out of my current savings and the loan I will get here, I plan to start my own dispensing chemist [pharmacy], where I will be treating common illnesses to people within the locality. Some of these common illness are upper respiratory tract infections (since this is a tea growing zone) and malaria. I would also provide wound dressing, family planning services, immunizations and manage clinical symptoms like joint pains (especially for the elderly), headaches and abdominal discomfort.

With the great name as a nurse I have earned in my community and the great confidence they have in me, I just realized that so many were taking advantage of that, having me prescribe drugs for them and sending me to the chemist in a nearby town to bring them the drugs I would prescribe to them.

I have noted this to be a great opportunity, and I want now to bring these drugs closer to them and also do some baseline investigation such as blood pressure monitoring, temperature and weight before commencement of treatment.

I want now to grow my passion of seeing a healthy community through managing some medical conditions and giving them health education.

My Business

My sole business is to dispense drugs over the counter and see patient with clinical symptoms, on whom I can do baseline investigations before prescribing any drugs. This shall be after a charge since the clients will be required to pay some consultation fee, and this will sustain my clinic alongside the sale of drugs.

Since my home is situated near a shopping center, I have acquired a room at a cost of $70 US dollars, this being a remote area. I plan to renovate the room at a cost of around $150 US dollars, since shelves will be fixed and the cost of material and labour inclusive.

For a start, I require at least two digital thermometers, a weighing scale, and one blood pressure machine at a cost of around $150 US dollars, and I hope to use them for a long period without breakdown. The other things are stationery materials, pharmaceutical drugs, materials for dressing wounds, and gloves, which will cost me approximately $700 US dollars.

I do not want to purchase a lot of utilities for now because of the financial strain which I might encounter, but I believe, with the amount which I will raise in Zidisha, coupled with my savings, I can roll the stone. In the future, I want to expand the business so as to be supplied from the main source.

Loan Proposal

I had plans of leasing some land near home to grow vegetables but am putting this on hold. now that its dry spell in Kenya I want to purchase some farm inputs to be able to do irrigation in my kale and spinach garden.
with the 150 dollars in zidisha I will top with 100$ from my previous profit saving and get 3 irrigation sprinklers at a cost of 120$ then pipes at a cost of 50$ and the rest use for seedlings and labour to pay my casual labourers.
I hope I will harvest enough to counter the big demand in my area.

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