Project Updates

I do not have words to express my gratitude for funding my new project. It is a big boost to my business, as you will surely come to find as I continue repaying the loan. I will go ahead and buy the computers, which will greatly support the growth my business. It is only a matter of time, before I change my tune and start talking about my business empire. Thank you so much, indeed.

The loan was used to purchase medicines for my drugstore.
So far, my earnings have increase by about 5%.

Good luck on your sewing machine/clothing repair project!! :)

Hello, my dear lenders and friends...

I want say a special thank you for all the help you have been giving me, and especially this one. I am very grateful, and I say God bless you all...

This loan will help set up my business. As I wrote earlier, I have a lot of growth potential this year... and with this help alone, I think I will achieve it.

I am so grateful...thank you all...

I am happy to be part of this community. It is great to have you around. All thanks go to my lenders for your patience and love, God richly bless you.

Thank you very much, lenders, for funding my loan. I will use the money to buy new designer shoes to add to my shop. This will help me earn more profits and give me a chance to grow my business. Thank you again, Zidisha and lenders!

Below are pictures of some of the clothes I sell.
Two pictures are of me displaying shirts for a client.

Thank you, lenders. Thank you, Zidisha. The loan has been helpful to me. It has given me more bargaining advantage. Thank you, LENDERS. l am most grateful.

Hi Lilian,
Wishing you all the very best for the continued success of your business and you and your family's happiness. :-)

The loan amount I have completed servicing has really helped me and has made my School expand greatly. My earnings have really increased by 40%.

I thank you and appreciate the great effort of the Zidisha team. I can truly say that this site comes after the Almighty God because the care, affection, and dedication given to every individual on this platform is very nice.

Zidisha.org, am grateful for my second loan which is really helping me run my errands business smoothly without any hitches.

Business would have been incomplete without ZIDISHA LENDERS because the funds assist me to pre-fund the concierge before being reimbursed with my profits.

Zidisha... a tale of smooth business lending, drifting from dreams to reality.

halo lenders, thank you so much for your support once again, i have received 57000 KES for buying laptop this morning,i really appreciate your trust on me, shall update you continuously on the purchase and how the business has improved

I really appreciate what Zidisha has done for me. My work keeps on improving and my income is now increasing. Thank you very much, Zidisha lenders.

My pleasure Michael, I hope it helps you expand your business and all goes well for you.

Your Cyber Cafe looks great! Best wishes for your continued success.

It's a pleasure to help! Wish you all the best!

This is my new look shop with the additional clothes courtesy of
Zidisha and my lender Paul Buchheit!

First am amazed and happy by the quick response. Second currently I have guest friend who i look up to and is more than willing to teach me a few things starting today. Meaning this might be life transforming. I also wish one day i be a sponsor or lender.
Good deeds are always rewarded

I want to thank Mr. Paul Graham for fully funding my loan. I promise to invest the money in the indicated project. Currently, I have been able to begin payment on land worth Ksh. 550,000. According to the contract, I will be done paying the land within the next one year. I am legally allowed to develop the land and I am in the process of looking for a developer who will help in improving the value of land. This is just the beginning of being a real-estate investor.

Thanks to the Zidisha family for this amazing concept that has helped me set up Academic Research, Consultancy, Retail Pharmacy Outlet, and now going into the real-estate business.

Finally after the negotiations i finally managed to get the concrete mixer.its a second hand but it will add my income to $33 per day during hiring.it will also create a job opportunity to someone as well.thanks to the lenders

I am very grateful to Zidisha team who has come part of my family, and enabled me to rise in heights that i would have not risen by own strength. Zidisha has given me a reason to smile and hope for a bright future. I wont forget my lenders:-
SabineS, Germany
Bing-shu Pan, Taiwan
Mart, United Kingdom
Aaron Scherf, Sweden
jimmycarterforever, Missoula, United States
Gundorff, Denmark
John Walsh, Alicante, Spain., Spain
Tiffany Roberts, United States
Julia, United States
McKenzie Dodge, Oregon, United States
Adam Romek Kallin, Sweden
Andre, Hamburg, Germany
anonymous123, United States
spareshade, Australia
twm3823, United States
djlayton4, United States
DavidJSmu, North Attleboro, Ma, United States
ErinMcNulty, United States
Elvis, India
Brianne Keyes, United States
BMcDermott, Washington, Dc, United States
kingcamo1095, Mountain Home, United States
AllieJ, Camberwell, Australia
AER, Germany
Michelle Santiano, Canada
Anuroopa Shenoy,United States
Charlotte Thorp, United States
evanderkoogh, Australia
Kristiina, All Countries
Jon Bratseth, Norway
WiscoHorndog, United States
Craig Weeding, Australia
zanzabi, Italy
Manley, Windermere, United States
Steven Hill, Barcelona, United Kingdom
LynxTeam, Germany
Tam77, Malta
Wade, United States
Jason Ormand, New York City, United States
James, United States
stever, Cape Coral, United States
graememoss, Amsterdam, Netherlands
wndw55, Germany
Daniel, Germany
Edmunds Cepuritis, Latvia
Andreas Holmstrom, Norway
cactusgirl, London, United Kingdom
Cblodgett, Zurich, Switzerland
Scott, Oregon, United States
Yustian Hartono, Singapore, Singapore
MarktheMormon, Sandy, Utah, United States
MrMichigander, Marquette, United States
khassi, Ainebel, Lebanon
Jared Wonnacott, United States
cjmenchaca, Austin, United States
Matching Fund, Sterling, United States
fairspirit, Utrecht, Netherlands
E, Marin County, United States
TyWee, Manila, Philippines
investor, Candiac, Canada
Kirsty M, Germany
joaoferraz, Rinchoa, Portugal
idris, United States
Eduard, Dneprodzerginsk, Ukraine
adamdreaming, United States
Dave Bogard, New York, United States
Zidisha, Sterling, United States
dmirpuri, Bangkok, Thailand
Brooklyn, Brooklyn, United States
Akowal, United States
SMOICE, Berlin, Germany
Gordons28, Santa Monica, United States
rebecca, Chapin Sc, United States
agwong, Ca, United States
LaurenR, Denver, United States
James Broderick, Cobham, United Kingdom
CWS, Huntington Beach, Ca, United States
bgalon, London, United Kingdom
Errol, Bradenton, Fl, United States
Snick, Halle, Germany
Hilke, Bremen, Germany
Canlender1, Nanaimo, Canada and
Dymero, Manchester, United States ,in deed you are all my heroes and i celebrate you all for your heartfelt hearts.
when i received my loan I had purposed to do honey harvesting and selling business and at that period their was heavy rainfall in Mount Elgon where my honey was to be harvested, that meant that i could not get raw honey . for that purpose i needed to change strategy and opted to started purchasing raw peanuts and later process them to peanut butter then there after sell the peanut butter. this indeed was a great idea that made me have both business running to date i sell honey and peanut butter..
once again i would have not done this alone and mine is to continue thanking you all.

Despite those challeges of posting comments on my dash board am very happy since joining zidisha becauze am enjoying the porofits now, I managed to buy the chair and thus creating another persons apportunity to earn a living and also raising my profits by about 40% and thus enables to pay my loans smoothly, now am able to pay more than 70% of my loan and am hopping to complete soon and i expect that you will raise my borrowing limit so that ican able to expand my business,with out forgeting to thank mr Paul Buchheit for believing in me,May God bless u for your generous support.

Am very grateful for the service you have given me. I thank you my business is doing very well at this moment . Thanks be blessed

Firstly, I would like to thank the Zidiaha team for the support you have given me. I never knew I would manage so easily to have my own computer. Honestly, this asset has helped me a lot, especially with inventory look-ups, and my business is so easy to stock since I have a database now. I am so happy! Thank you!!

hallo my dear lenders and just wanted to thank Paul Graham,Venessa Richardson,Peter,The Zinc Team,Craig Newmark,Priscilla Rathbone and Moursund for helping me raise the amount that was needed for my loan.
I will invest the whole amount in my mpesa business to enable me raise my income inorder to be able to raise money for the education policy for my daughters. thanks alot and may God bless you and I also promise to repay on time.

Thank you so very much Paul Graham for your kind and timely consideration. May the good Lord greatly bless you. This loan will make a great change and impact in my life, family and my career/business which has never happened before. I will always keep you upto date about my business and family happiness, appreciation and development. I will also patiently wait for the disbursment of the loan which was unbelievably funded within minutes of its publishment on Zidisha website. Sir, I am humbled and I salute you.

We thank you and appreciate the great effort of the Zidisha team. I can boldly say that this site comes after the Almighty God because the care, affection, and dedication given to every individual on this platform is very, very superb. Am even forgetting that I lost my dad a long time ago because the help I would be getting from him is being provided to me here. Thanks, once again. Zidisha!!!! The Rock hope of the world!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks very much for everything. Words are not enough. Am really proud of being part of this family. God bless you lenders for the hope given us in life again.

Hello, Lenders, and hope this finds well.
Am very happy to let you know that I managed to clear my loan earlier than the expected time. This is because the loan you gave me really boosted my business and, in turn, good profit. Am really thankful for your support and feeling blessed by your kindness. My family, too, is very thankful, especially my wife.
May the Good Lord continually bless you and everything you do.
Joseph Mwangi.

The loan amount I just completed servicing made a big different in my life in that am now able to employ more teachers and admit more children in my school and hence giving me more income.
Thanks a lot for for the past loan a mount you gave me and am asking again kindly to consider lending me again for the second time and I will be faithful in repayment .
Long live Zidisha. ZIDISHA is REAL .

Dear lenders,
Thanks for the continued financial support.. you have given me a reason to live, because life without you is just surviving and not really living. This loan that I am raising is to help me to realize a distant dream. In fact, I intend to build Zidisha stalls for rent with the other loans.. Thanks, lenders, for all your efforts in making my dream come true and my life happy.

First of all, I really thank my lenders and Zidisha team members for my second loan. God bless you all.

The loan was used to buy cloth to stock my business. The expansion of my stock, indeed, created more sales which resulted in an increase in my profit by 40%. The reason is there have been different kinds of cloth for my customers to choose from. Now, I can boldly say I can always get food for my family and for myself also. The question I always ask is, had it not been for Zidisha, what would be the state of my life now?

It's a wonderful experience growing with zidisha ,Thanks for funding me once again to achieve my dream,i have accepted the funds and towards the end of the week when the funds are disbursed to me, i will go ahead and procure the farm inputs.Thanks once more

Thank you so much for the first loan. It really helped me realize my big dream. I have been able to pay my school fee from the money that i generate through the writing and also support myself financially. I am now in a position to buy food, pay my workers as well as save some money at the end of the day.
I am now planning to advance a second loan with an aim of starting a cyber cafe and a print shop within the university.

Dear Zidisha team,
God has been wonderful. God is great!
Because of your help, I got a farm on lease for one year to plant watermelons. This was made possible from the proceeds earned from the desktop computer I bought for Internet services with the loan from Zidisha. Thank you very much, and God bless you.

This is my photo please

With this first loan . I was able to buy and sell more of the coconut oil . My customer base has doubled and as result I have been able to make more profit that enable me to pay the last installment of my training fee as well us grow my business .I have introduced palm kernel oil last of which I have taken stocks that can take me for a month.

Hello lenders,
Thank you so much for the loan you offered me. I used it to buy mosquito nets to sell to the people in my community, and it has helped us to reduce the spread of malaria. It has also increased my revenue. Thank you.

Business is good and I want to increase my payment

Thank you, Zidisha, for the loan.
I managed to pay my tuition fee and now I can complete my education without a problem.

classroom under development

other pictures

I have completed my first loan repayment. it has helped my school to get some few chairs to support the children.
Thanks to Zidisha and all my lenders God richly bless you for supporting my school.
I pray that you will support my second loan also when i apply in future thanks. some few pictures of my school children.

Hi Luke - I just finished funding your loan. Good luck with your work and be safe on your motorcycle! Wear a helmet! :)
Regards, Karen

Hi lenders, hope you are doing great... the loan you gave me has helped me a lot since I was able to purchase stock for my business and also pay part of my school fees, including my school project. Also through this loan, my earnings have increased from 1000 KES to 2000 KES, hence I have been able to meet the day-to-day needs of me and my family. Thank you, Zidisha family, and may God bless you abundantly.

I received the loan in full and this has made me improve on my agriculture production. The fetilizer is has increased the yields almost double. Thank you all lenders.

Hi, progressing well. i thank God for his mercies that the sales have shown a good turn up and opt to increase the payment amount.

I receive my loan in full and was able to pay the examination fee.
I'm now allowed to sit for the examination.
Thank you all lenders.

Thank you Zidisha community and all the lenders for the loan.
It has helped me to pay tuition fee. I'm looking foward to complete my education without a problem.