Name
Mark
Member since
June 2014
On-time repayments
152 installments • 93%
My personal life description concerning my early childhood is that I was raised by my grandfather and grandmother at a very tender and young age of five years in my kindergarten school before proceeding to primary level education. When I was proceeding to primary level,my grandmother died and I continued living with my grandfather. The distance I covered every day to school was over fifteen kilometres and by the time I arrived at school, I was already tired. I did not always get a balanced diet in the meals I took in the morning and this affected my health condition. My biological parents were not in a position to provide for me a balanced diet due to their lack of resources and poverty levels . The four years that followed posed a great challenge in my life as I found myself being sent to go go back home and collect school fees or tuition fee as I was studying in the next phase of advancing in education to the post primary level which is secondary education. There were limited access to resources which led to suffering most of the time. After that I proceeded to police training college for close to a year and I began working in the civil service of Kenya for the next 18 years with no tangible results to show as a result of educating my siblings for the years I was working. Am now pursuing education in theological studies to enable me serve God well in pastoral duties and calling.
The description of my business venture is that I have my passion located in the area of farming. from my childhood years I have loved and admired farming in general. My business right now is dealing with green house farming and passion fruit farming. My initial investment in the passion fruit farming all went at a loss due to a new disease that was not detected by the relevant agencies dealing with farming in agricultural sector. Their lack of the right treatment was due to the fact that passion fruit farming was new and requires high level management. The green house farming has encountered challenges in that water for the green house has been affected by the dry season which happens during the first few months of the year. Water pump is what is required to pump water from the borehole nearby. The market is readily available because those who sell the commodity do come to the green house farm to collect. The revenue is fair to small scale farming and entrepreneur individuals . The season we are in right now is dry season and the demand for water to irrigate the tomatoes is such that it erodes the capital slowly and due to this i have decided to invest in a mini bookshop for en envelops and other stationary materials in order to assist in my studies and remain with zidisha assistance since it has done a lot of good in my life and family.
This is a farming venture with benefits beyond money. The farming project will bring health benefits since it is a source of vitamin c and prevent disease that attacks the immune system. Since it requires constant financing in the foundation stages of the project the loan amount requested will go a long way in purchase of further seedlings to replace some that don't do well in the beginning stages which requires close to kshs.10,000/= while the workers require close to 20,000/= and maintaining close supervision and professional field officer charges require 25,000/= . Thanks
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Project Type
Classic Loan
Disbursed amount
$504.00
Date disbursed
Aug 18, 2016
Repayment status
On Time
Projected term
3 months
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Amount repaid
$529.20
Amount remaining
$0.00
Date repaid
Dec 2, 2016
Status
Fully repaid
Expected Payments | Actual Payments | ||
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Aug 31, 2016 | $38.32 | Sep 5, 2016 | $38.32 |
Sep 7, 2016 | $38.32 | Sep 13, 2016 | $38.32 |
Sep 14, 2016 | $38.32 | Sep 16, 2016 | $38.32 |
Sep 21, 2016 | $38.32 | Sep 26, 2016 | $38.32 |
Sep 28, 2016 | $38.32 | Oct 3, 2016 | $38.32 |
Oct 5, 2016 | $38.32 | Oct 10, 2016 | $38.32 |
Oct 12, 2016 | $38.32 | Oct 14, 2016 | $38.32 |
Oct 19, 2016 | $38.32 | Oct 24, 2016 | $38.32 |
Oct 26, 2016 | $38.32 | Oct 27, 2016 | $38.32 |
Nov 2, 2016 | $38.32 | Nov 7, 2016 | $38.32 |
Nov 9, 2016 | $38.32 | Nov 11, 2016 | $38.32 |
Nov 16, 2016 | $38.32 | Nov 21, 2016 | $38.32 |
Nov 23, 2016 | $38.32 | Nov 27, 2016 | $38.32 |
Nov 30, 2016 | $31.10 | Dec 2, 2016 | $31.10 |
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