Joshua Jones
Newtown Extention, Ghana
100% repaid
Name
Joshua Jones
Member since
February 2015
On-time repayments
129 installments • 26%
I am Joshua Jones Opoku Marfo from Elmina in Central Region but currently live in Newtown Extension, a suburb of Sunyani in Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. My parents are Dr. C. Jones-Techie and Madam Sophia Donkor. I had my basic, secondary and tertiary education with Abrafo Junior Secondary School, Sunyani Secondary School and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology respectively and hold a degree in Forest Resources Technology. I am married to Mrs. Faustina Opoku Marfo and have two children. After my first degree, I joined a school and held a position of Vice Principal but due to my desire and quest to establishing a business to provide some job opportunities to the many unemployed graduates in the country, I started an honey producing farm which also aims at providing wholesome honey to the ever increasing consumers in and outside sunyani.
This business was started with the aim of providing job opportunities to the many unemployed graduates and also make available wholesome and organic honey to consumers. A little survey I conducted prior to the commencement of the farm indicated that, there is a high demand for good honey because most were fed to infants but due to its unavailability throughout the year, retailers add all manner of things to increase the quantity, thereby endangering the lives of consumers for profit. The business is lucrative because the demand is high and consumers prefer it over the others but my honey production is in small quantity now and so requires additional production of hives, purchasing of comb foundations, safety clothing for workers and a bigger and more efficient extraction machine to increase honey production and create more jobs from the production stage to the sale of the finished product.
The honey business is lucrative because the demand is high and consumers prefer mine over the others but honey production is in small quantity now so some of the money will still go into constructing additional hives to empowerment others who have shown interest in the business and also acquire some few items needed to commence since they cannot afford to buy the things from their incomes.
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Project Type
Classic Loan
Disbursed amount
$182.00
Date disbursed
Apr 29, 2015
Repayment status
On Time
Projected term
3 months
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