Entrepreneur
Name
Patrick
Member since
August 2013
On-time repayments
59 installments • 46%
About Me
I am Patrick Chiro charo, a young man aged 25 living in Mtwapa coast Kenya and a christian by faith who also respects other people's religions.
I went to vipingo primary school and later joined shariani high school . After some few challenges i had to drop from the university, started a charcoal business, moved to computer service business and got money to go back to school to complete my course. As a young man, who was raised by a single parent who was not financially stable, it was a difficult time rising by by own.
However, have benefited from Zidisha and that is the money which helped me grow my business to creating the fund to help me finish my studies
I had challenges at the beginning maintaining my credit score in my repayments. It was difficult balancing studying and business until a time later when i opted to close my business , get the whole money for schooling.
It is at this time i was in school when i developed alternative business ideas and currently persuing them
My Business
During my time in school, i learnt some IT skills and now i can do digital marketing. I am a web developer, graphics designer and as seen in the profile, i am a disc joker, DJ Bembela, who just joined the industry on a part time.
So my business currently is doing events where i go with my public address, i dj and get paid on part time. My clients are mostly meetings of government and private stakeholders.
Primarily, i do digital marketing where i develop websites, do graphic designs and do print work.
I get my customers to do web designing and graphics through posting my done work in some whats app groups and visiting private and government offices, banks and through referral links
I have customers coming in to seek my services because i do work of standard at a subsidized charge
I have a passion in helping the community that is why i subsidize my services. I train less privileged boys and girls for free in my community so that they can seek employment at computer services firms and hope one day i will be able to have a whole company running with these services fully where i can employ people
Loan Proposal
Thank you so much for approving my loan for funding. I will use this loan to add stock in my business and I am also targeting the coming holiday where most of the people will have come from town and I will be ready to do business with them. I will also use this money to marketing my business as I wish to reach certain places that I have not reached.
Thank you so much.
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Loan Info
Project Type
Classic Loan
Disbursed amount
$100.00
Date disbursed
Sep 9, 2013
Repayment status
On Time
Projected term
25 months
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