Am mother of six children living in musumarini, Kikambala. Am a businesswoman doing my business in mtwapa and the other surrounding i do my business as door to door service. My first child is girl and she is married and settled with her husband, the second is a a girl and also married the third is a boy, he fished his secondary school education but due to unemployment, he is doing casual jobs, the fourth is a girl and also married, the fifth is a boy and is in primary school, in class six, the last is a boy and in class five. I live with my last three children in Musumarini. I started doing business because i wanted to meet my family needs.I first started with tailoring business, and later i introduced the boutique selling second hand clothes.This business really helped me with my family upkeep.With my income from the business i buy food for the family paying rent at the boutique, and paying school fees.
My business is a combined boutique and a tailoring shop, these combined businesses gives me a good help in my family upkeep. This business is doing well especially, the boutique which i do a door to door service, this business does better because i go to the customers right to their houses. with this door to door service target all age group as i meet them at their residential places this business is profitable as i get my family needs without any problem. With this business i get an income of ksh 30,000 per month. in this business my risks include, rainy season, this affects as i walk doing the door to door service so its hard to walk in such weather.With the income i get i use ksh 5,000 for my family food, ksh 4, 000 paying school fees, ksh 5 for my family expences and other family needs. i save ksh 16,000 per month, which i can use to repay my zidisha loan.
I managed to buy a piece of land on which i want to invest into farming. with this loan i want to start a vegetable project. I will make a good nursery for tomatoes, kale, and spinach as these do very well here. So with the loan i will use Us dolars 100 to buy a water tank pipes and labor for the fitting of the tank. I will use Us dolars 500 to dig a well, in my area we have we have good water and not very deep you get water at a depth of 35 to 50 feet deep so this will help me so much, Then i will use Us dolars 300 for preparing the land. Then i will use Us dolars 50 to buy the vegetable seeds , I will the rest to add more stock to buy existing business. This will be so good as we approach the Christmas season this will boost me so much.
Vegetable farming on my newly bought piece of land
Am mother of six children living in musumarini, Kikambala. Am a businesswoman doing my business in mtwapa and the other surrounding i do my business as door to door service. My first child is girl and she is married and settled with her husband, the second is a a girl and also married the third is a boy, he fished his secondary school education but due to unemployment, he is doing casual jobs, the fourth is a girl and also married, the fifth is a boy and is in primary school, in class six, the last is a boy and in class five. I live with my last three children in Musumarini. I started doing business because i wanted to meet my family needs.I first started with tailoring business, and later i introduced the boutique selling second hand clothes.This business really helped me with my family upkeep.With my income from the business i buy food for the family paying rent at the boutique, and paying school fees.
My business is a combined boutique and a tailoring shop, these combined businesses gives me a good help in my family upkeep. This business is doing well especially, the boutique which i do a door to door service, this business does better because i go to the customers right to their houses. with this door to door service target all age group as i meet them at their residential places this business is profitable as i get my family needs without any problem. With this business i get an income of ksh 30,000 per month. in this business my risks include, rainy season, this affects as i walk doing the door to door service so its hard to walk in such weather.With the income i get i use ksh 5,000 for my family food, ksh 4, 000 paying school fees, ksh 5 for my family expences and other family needs. i save ksh 16,000 per month, which i can use to repay my zidisha loan.
I managed to buy a piece of land on which i want to invest into farming. with this loan i want to start a vegetable project. I will make a good nursery for tomatoes, kale, and spinach as these do very well here. So with the loan i will use Us dolars 100 to buy a water tank pipes and labor for the fitting of the tank. I will use Us dolars 500 to dig a well, in my area we have we have good water and not very deep you get water at a depth of 35 to 50 feet deep so this will help me so much, Then i will use Us dolars 300 for preparing the land. Then i will use Us dolars 50 to buy the vegetable seeds , I will the rest to add more stock to buy existing business. This will be so good as we approach the Christmas season this will boost me so much.