Patrick
Joyland Village, Kenya
100% repaid
Name
Patrick
Member since
June 2014
On-time repayments
214 installments • 24%
I’m Patrick Kirimi, 21 years old, and I am an enthusiastic businessman with a prospective future. Self motivated when I succeed, persuasive, convincing, nice treatment, fluidness conversational, proactive, and excellent with open public relationship, expert in computational experience skills. I am hard working and very determined. I enjoy keeping myself busy and put extra effort in my tasks. I enjoy working with other and able to work unsupervised. I have excellent communication skills and telephone techniques. I am reliable, I strive to always keep a positive attitude and have the ability to learn quickly.
As my basic functions I consider to be productive and tough I grew up in Meru County living a typical life; however, I’m now in Joyland village, Juja location in Kiambu County. I stay in Juja away from my family because I can make more money here. Presently I own a supermarket shop that earns me averagely 700$ monthly as net profit , but my dream is to grow my business into a large enterprise and also diversify to other products.
My solely owned business located in Muchatha, Juja. Uliza supermarket is primarily a small supermarket that sells everything from groceries, ready made foods to Tobacco products and other household items and also offer money transfer through M-PESA. I established Uliza supermarket in 2010 in a 1500 square feet shop. In 2011, I bought out our neighbor’s variety store. I merged the two shops together and made it into a supermarket. Today the shop’s size is 3000 square feet. In 2012, I made a profitable decision to make a take-out section within the store. My take-out section sells sausages, kebabs, and samosas. My customers have repeatedly requested that I should start selling fresh milk products in my store since I already sell all types of food items. My average earnings from my business can be estimated at 700$ per month.
Since I started my supermarket it has been ever growing since. I sell dry goods, cereals and beans. I need a loan to diversify my business in my take-out section. I need to add fresh milk in my list of items. My biggest challenge is enough capital to buy a fridge in order to increase my sales. If granted the 150$ loan I will add another 200$ from my savings and buy me a fridge worth 350$ for fresh milk. This investment will earn me an extra 170$ per month; because, with a fridge I’ll be able to buy larger quantities of milk and keep it longer thus reducing losses due to the milk fermenting. That means I won’t have to waste time and transport money that is approximately 100$ per month that I use to pick milk daily from the supplier. The expected benefit is likely to shoot up my milk sales especially since there is no competition where my business is located; hence, this will see me making almost double the profit I am currently getting. The returns will then help expand my business by increasing inventory so as to achieve customer retention. I have a vision for my business and having this loan will assist me work towards the future of my business.
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Project Type
Classic Loan
Disbursed amount
$150.00
Date disbursed
Sep 16, 2014
Repayment status
On Time
Projected term
3 months
Other loans
Amount repaid
$153.68
Amount remaining
$0.00
Date repaid
Dec 23, 2014
Status
Fully repaid
Expected Payments | Actual Payments | ||
---|---|---|---|
Sep 29, 2014 | $10.98 | Sep 29, 2014 | $10.98 |
Oct 6, 2014 | $10.98 | Sep 29, 2014 | $0.52 |
Oct 6, 2014 | $10.46 | ||
Oct 13, 2014 | $10.98 | Oct 6, 2014 | $1.03 |
Oct 13, 2014 | $9.94 | ||
Oct 20, 2014 | $10.98 | Oct 13, 2014 | $1.55 |
Oct 20, 2014 | $9.43 | ||
Oct 27, 2014 | $10.98 | Oct 20, 2014 | $2.07 |
Oct 28, 2014 | $8.91 | ||
Nov 2, 2014 | $10.98 | Oct 28, 2014 | $2.59 |
Nov 3, 2014 | $8.39 | ||
Nov 9, 2014 | $10.98 | Nov 3, 2014 | $3.10 |
Nov 11, 2014 | $7.87 | ||
Nov 16, 2014 | $10.98 | Nov 11, 2014 | $3.62 |
Nov 17, 2014 | $7.36 | ||
Nov 23, 2014 | $10.98 | Nov 17, 2014 | $4.14 |
Nov 25, 2014 | $6.84 | ||
Nov 30, 2014 | $10.98 | Nov 25, 2014 | $4.66 |
Dec 2, 2014 | $6.32 | ||
Dec 7, 2014 | $10.98 | Dec 2, 2014 | $5.17 |
Dec 9, 2014 | $5.80 | ||
Dec 14, 2014 | $10.98 | Dec 9, 2014 | $5.69 |
Dec 16, 2014 | $5.29 | ||
Dec 21, 2014 | $10.98 | Dec 16, 2014 | $6.21 |
Dec 23, 2014 | $4.77 | ||
Dec 28, 2014 | $10.98 | Dec 23, 2014 | $10.98 |
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