My name is Allan Fredrick, a 27 year old from Kenya, and I am the firstborn in the family of five children. My life has never been easy, but it has alway driven by hope, responsibility, and dream of building a better future for my family.

My name is Allan Fredrick from Kenya 27 years old, I was born in a family of five. Raised by the single mother, since then life has not been easy for us. Living by odd jobs from hand to mouth, despite all odds of life, I realized education could be only the key to success and support my siblings being the elder son, fortunately I went past high school to a college where I did Diploma in Information Communication Technology with an aim of getting a job to support my unvunerable family. But unfortunately the reality hits harder after finishing the college itself trying to apply jobs without success avery rejection feels harder and dissapointing. Rather than just being there waiting for employment which I may not know when it will happen, I came up with an idea to be self reliance I started with growing different crops generating at least an income in a day, going little further besides it I decided to start a dairy farming for extra income, being that running multiple projects at a time sometimes requires a lot of cash flow for stability I decided to join Zidisha because as a Zidisha community we can make it.

My business is focused on cows rearing, specially dairy farming, which plays an important role in supporting my income and serving my local community. I keep and manage small herd of cows, producing fresh milk that I sell to the nearby households and local markets. This business helps meet the daily demand for nutritious daily products while also sustaining my livelihood.

I take care of my cows by ensuring they are well fed, healthy, and properly managed. I invest time sourcing qualitty feed, mentain clean housing, and minitoring their heath to ensure consistent milk production. Through this hand on approach, I have been able to mentain a relaible supply of milk and build trust with my customrs.

Despite the progress have made, my businessis still growing and has great potential for expansion. With a ditional resources, I plan to increse the number of cows, improving feeding system, and adopt better fariming practice to enhance productivity. This will allow me to increse milk output, meet higher demand, and generate more income.

My goal is to develop a sustainable and profitable dairy farming business that only support my family but also contributes to the local economy by creting opportunities and providing quality products to the community.

Alongside dairy farming, I have also been investing in crop production especially maize and beans which plays important role in sistaining farm.

The I grow serves multiple purposes. Part of it id sold to generate income, and part

The maize I grow serves multiple purposes. Part of it is sold to generate income, and part used to amke silage, which privides nutritious feed for cows throughout the year. This has improved the health and productivity of my dairy herd. In addition, I also sell some of the silage to ther farmers, creating extra source of income while supporting others in my comminity.

The beans I grow contribute both to my income and food security for my family, By intergrating crop farming with dairy production, I am able to use farm resources efficiently turning crop redues into valuable livestock feed while earning from both farm produce and silage sales.

This approach has strenthened my dairy business and brought me closer to my goal of bulding a reliable, sustainable, and profitable farming enterprise.

I will use the funds to purchase essential requirements for my dairy cows such as dairy meal and bran to boost milk production, Some part of the funds I will directly channel to purchasing acaricide for ticks to improve their heath and incresed milk production.

With increased milk production, will support my family to access nutritious fresh milk and boost income supporting essential needs like school fee and daiy basic needs.

To my community, they will be able to access fresh and cheaper milk copared to the imported ones, as the project grows I will also be able to employ some community members to support farm work creating employment opportunity to the jobless community members.