Name
Faith
Member since
July 2014
On-time repayments
306 installments • 33%
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.
so far the earnings free the vegetable farming have been good. with the plans of leasing some more land to grow tomatoes I know the returns will increase. a kilo of tomatoes goes at 80 kenya shillings and with my expected time of harvest am likely to maje a profit of around 50 thousand kenya shillings.
my lenders please walk with me even in this journey.
iam faith a mother of one boy and a nurse establishing her self. i have grown up wanting to be independent lady and a role model to my siblings.
I started agri business 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 and iam planning to lease some more land for the same due to high demand.
Having now established my vegetable farm and gotten a good market through my fourth loan here i was able to establish my dispensing chemist. I have been treating common illnesses to people within the locality. some of these common illness are like upper respiratory tract infections since this is a tea growing zone, malaria, wound dressing, family planning services, immunizations and manage clinical symptoms like joint pains especially the elderly, headaches and abdominal discomfort.
with the great name as NURSE i have earned in my community and the great confidence they have in me so many were taking that as an advantage to have me prescribe for them drugs and they would send me to the chemist in a nearby town to bring them the drugs i would prescribed to them.
I noted that to be a great opportunity and i w brought those drugs closer to them and also i have been doing some baseline investigation such as blood pressure monitoring, temperature and weight.
My dream of seeing a healthy community through managing some medical conditions and giving them health educations in regard to their health is almost being fulffilled. If only i can acquire some more few items then this will come into a fulfimet.
my sole business is to dispense drugs over the counter and seeing patient with clinical symptoms whom i can do baseline investigations before prescribing any drugs.
This is after a charge since the clients are required to pay some consultation fee and this is what sustains my clinic alongside the sale of drugs.
I plan to buy a fridge now and a cool box to be storing vaccines and some drugs like insulin which require cold storage for their potency to be maintained.
so far the earnings free the vegetable farming have been good. with the plans of leasing some more land to grow tomatoes I know the returns will increase. a kilo of tomatoes goes at 80 kenya shillings and with my expected time of harvest am likely to maje a profit of around 50 thousand kenya shillings.
my lenders please walk with me even in this journey.
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Project Type
Classic Loan
Disbursed amount
$145.00
Date disbursed
Dec 28, 2014
Repayment status
On Time
Projected term
3 months
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Amount repaid
$148.07
Amount remaining
$0.00
Date repaid
Feb 20, 2015
Status
Fully repaid
Expected Payments | Actual Payments | ||
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Jan 4, 2015 | $24.40 | Jan 8, 2015 | $24.40 |
Jan 11, 2015 | $24.40 | Jan 18, 2015 | $3.37 |
Jan 26, 2015 | $20.22 | ||
Jan 27, 2015 | $0.81 | ||
Jan 18, 2015 | $24.40 | Jan 27, 2015 | $24.40 |
Jan 25, 2015 | $24.40 | Jan 27, 2015 | $24.40 |
Feb 1, 2015 | $24.40 | Jan 27, 2015 | $6.56 |
Feb 1, 2015 | $17.84 | ||
Feb 8, 2015 | $9.12 | Feb 1, 2015 | $9.12 |
Feb 15, 2015 | $2.25 | Feb 13, 2015 | $2.25 |
Feb 22, 2015 | $2.25 | Feb 13, 2015 | $2.25 |
Mar 1, 2015 | $2.25 | Feb 13, 2015 | $1.12 |
Feb 20, 2015 | $1.12 | ||
Mar 8, 2015 | $2.25 | Feb 20, 2015 | $2.25 |
Mar 15, 2015 | $2.25 | Feb 20, 2015 | $2.25 |
Mar 22, 2015 | $2.25 | Feb 20, 2015 | $2.25 |
Mar 29, 2015 | $3.44 | Feb 20, 2015 | $3.44 |
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