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 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.

Given the loan since i have to withhold 100$ for deposit iam left with 420$. I plan to use 300$to get a medium fridge and 30$ to get a good cool box. The rest of the amount i will use it to buy more drugs and other non pharmàceutical utilities in my dispensing chemist.