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Cybercafe

Buying a coloured copier machine

John DoeJ
EntrepreneurLuckyLocationMakindu - Nguuni, Kenya
Project status
100%funded
$730raised
8%paid forward

I completed my primary school level in the year 1993, and in the year 1994 I joined high school but due to lack of school fees I dropped out. March 1994 I traveled to Mombasa, I got a job in a cybercafé as cleaner. Here's where I worked and trained in computers. Due to my good work and experience, one of my client gave me a used photocopier machine and one computer which I started a business: a small bureau.

First, I operated in a small bureau, in my bureau I did photocopy and typesetting but the competition was high due to many and well equipped bureaus around. The profit that I get from the shop wasvery low, cannot cartered for my life expenses. That's why I was seeking a loan to upgrade my bureau with more computers and stationery.

Recently I switched to another business: Sugarcane Juice. I do crush 50pcs of sugarcane in one day, the business is going very well.

One pc of sugarcane is sold at kshs. 35 at our nearby market (Kongowea).

50pcs = Kshs. 1,750/= and when i sell the juice I get Kshs. 5,000/=.

I employed a small boy whom I pay Kshs. 300/= per day.

It is a good business, my profit can be Kshs 2950!

Am requesting this loan for buying a coloured machine (Bizhub C220 - Konica Minolta) for my bureau, the one am using at the moment it is a black cartridge kyocera mita machine, this machine will cost kshs. 100,000/= that is equal to USD 993, because i have a lot of customers and most of them are requesting for quicker machine and this Bizhub can make my work easier because it is a big machine produces both coloured and black copies and also printing pictures in high speed. which per can give me a profit of kshs. 1,500/= per day and it will increase more customer who need quick services.