Project Updates

I will buy yarns of different colors worth $27 for the production of the kente cloth and will be making a weekly profit of about $8 which will go a long way to help me save towards my university education. Thank you very much to all my lenders.

Taking this opportunity to appreciate my lenders for their generosity. I was able to increase my stock by 20 litres.I am now reaching extra clients with my honey product that I was. I thank Zidisha for making it possible,I still need more funding to venture online market platform aiming at reaching more and diverse clientele.
Meanwhile, my business in getting blissful,I wish I could send you people some pure honey from my depot!!Blessings and together!.Cheers!

In my farm (Plantain and maize )
Did some wedding in the maize farm

Thanks to Zidisha and lenders from around the world for supporting my business by providing loans to increase inventory purchase capital. I hope you are still willing to support me back so that my efforts can be more advanced and have benefits for the people around me. Thank you!

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Thanks to Zidisha and lenders from around the world for supporting my business by providing loans to increase inventory purchase capital. I hope you are still willing to support me back so that my efforts can be more advanced and have benefits for the people around me. Thank you!

I was starting another venture. making Interlocking blocks for building. this is a relatively new technology in kenya and Im hopeful that the response will be good.

The loan supported me to buy materials, glue, wood, different inches of foam and different inches of nails . This purchase is really increases my confidence level and also my customers are happy about how I does my work. I want to reinvent all my 19% profit.

Dear lenders the loan you sent to me last time helped me so much and that's why I have been paying the loan on time so please let you not worry about me keep on lending me and I will not let you down my good lenders. I used my loan on adding more spareparts.like tubes,spokes,hubs,cones,Carrier bolts,steelballs,hubcaps,& etc l used kshs;6900/=.l have already paid my and the amount l have cash in hand is kshs;6000/=.which means that is my profit. And still I have some more spareparts on my shelves. THANKS my lenders & ZIDISHA.

Hello My Lender, i have received 22,177ksh as a loan. This will buy 4 bags of 50kg Suger costing approximately 16000ksh(160$) and 5 bales of maize meal costing approximately 5100ksh(51$). Am really thankful to Zidisha organization for living to their word, may God bless you.

Wow just finished repaying my loan, thanks to Zidisha and my lenders for making it possible for me, I purchased a washing machine which has been so handy at my place of work, I don't have to wait for days before my towels are dry, this has helped save a lot of time and I serve more visitors compared to previous days where during rainy seasons I could only manage to serve a few guests to avoid over piling of wet towels and beddings, I do not have to worry anymore about the rain, let the rain come!!

Hello beautiful people, it good to be part of this noble organisation, I have immensely benefits from my lenders through the loan, I have been able to be self sufficient, very responsible when it comes finance.
From my pepper I have been able to put a significant money down which will be used as part of capital to start the new project.

With my previous loan, I had the opportunity to expand my work place and also I have again been able to employ another person to help me with my now many customers that come to my place for service. Now I can boldly say that I am my own boss, thanks to Zidisha.

Greetings to all my lenders!

Its been long since i posted an update on whats happening in my business and life. Alot has happened and thanks to all the Lenders who believed in my with the first loan that has helped me leapfrog to what the business have become and my family wellbeing.

I have continued to distribute solar lamps to students and signing new partnerships with remote villages and traditional ruler to continue with our One Student: One Solar Lamp Project! This aims at investing in the next generation of African leaders with the resource they need to achieve their dreams. As most of you may know, in remote villages 100% of the households are not connected to the national grid, making it difficult for children to study for longer hours. This affect them badly when it comes to compete with their peers from urban communities during the national examinations. We have a dream of putting a solar lamp in every child's hands to enable them study longer hours and become the leaders they so much want to be.

To achieve this i will continue to reach out to all of you my lenders who are passionate about this business!

This July i had an opportunity of been part of 200 young Africans who met 44th President of the USA, Barack Obama and my dreams of creating opportunities for women and girls in remote villages was renewed! It was a life changing conference with a call for all of us to do our part in creating the Africa we all want to see!

What strike me during the convening is the figures that were shared by some great minds working in Africa: By 2035, if we dont innovate ways to help our people, 1 Billion people will be in extreme poverty! This means, they will never have access to clean water, quality education or even health care! Africa is sitting on a time bomb. We need to innovate and find scalable solutions we can all invest in our energy or resources to change this.

All of you my lenders have been doing that: investing in entreprenuers across the African continent so that we can all work to reverse these figures. I thank you all for your boldness to helping all of us!

Thanks alot and continue with your investment in businesses you believe in so much!

ZIKOMO!

This is my pineapple farm now.

Hi Zidisha family,may I sincerely thank you all esp Melissa for funding my previous loan.I was able to purchase enough coriander seeds which are about to germinate,I look forward for greater partnership with you.May God bless you all and once more thank you.

My business.

Hi my dear Lenders.
I feel great to inform you that am doing well in my business. Am able to support my wife and also pay wages to my asisstants.
My business is expanding everyday.
I really value your support that made me get my business this far.
Thsnks.

OH MY GOD........
Am over the moon , my Van Loan is funded in full, Wow....
The last i checked it was 10% funded so i left work on Friday morning to attend a Family event in the country side and got back last night .
What a pleasant surprise i just got home from Church and thought of checking my Loan page and there it was...
A VERY BIG THANK YOU TO ALL MY LENDERS.
You have made my Sunday and am definitely going to have a great week ahead of me.
To my lenders thank you for believing in me , i will not let you down .
I will now be in a position to clear my Loan balance for the Van.

Have a blessed Day .

Regards ,

Daughty

Textbooks

Iam very pleased my dear lenders to inform you that I received my full loan as funded.words cannot thank you enough but pray almighty God to bless you.Tressforlife and Paul ,iam thankful. I bought printing papers and new curriculum textbooks and catridge ink.The new Mpesa branding is in progress.here is a photo of what I bought

Thanks my lenders ,Outi from Finland and Bing-shupan from Taiwan for quick funding of my loan,I will buy 25pcs of four way [email protected] dollars and sale each 5.82 dollars making a profit of 2.91 dollars per piece .i'm happy and i will pay my loan on time to create trustworthy and enable zidisha grow and enable others to get loan like me in fact I'm proud to be a zidisha borrower it is making me to achieve my goals my God bless my lenders and all zidisha lenders in general

I will open a minimarket and expand this minimarket to remote areas where today the community is increasingly growing to meet the daily basic needs of the community which is my regulation to develop and open branches again in each region and meet the needs of the community and getting profitable say and sustainable then will give multiple profiles and success together for my friends who are funding me committed to work together

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Saya akan membuka minimarket dan mengembangkan minimarket ini ke daerah-daerah terpencil yang mana pada saat ini masyarakat semakin Kian berkembang untuk memenuhi kebutuhan pokok sehari-hari masyarakat yang mana ini menjadi regulasi saya untuk mengembangkan dan membuka cabang lagi di setiap daerah serta memenuhi kebutuhan masyarakat dan mendapatkan profit yang berkata serta berkelanjutan lalu akan memberikan profil yang berlipat-lipat serta kesuksesan bersama-sama untuk teman-teman yang mendanai saya berkomitmen untuk bekerja sama

Mine is to thank the donor who had faith in me and extended their money to me in form of loan. Am glad i was able to achieve the following
1. Place a metal door on the piece of property.
2. Achieve intended security
3. Add value to the land.
4. Commence building though not complete of the intended shops.
Once again thanks for continued patnership and for your utmost faith.
The dream remains alive...

I will buy Suger in bulk of 50kg and maize meal flour in bails of 12packets. This will make the commodities readily available to my customers and subsequently increase my daily earnings. Am sincerely thankful to my lenders for been honest to their clients and the financial assistance you accord to me.

I purchase some latest hairs in town.
This purchase I made have made much much difference in my financial status.
This hairs that I bought have increase my profit of about 150 Ghana CEDI's.Because of this loan I have been able to pay for the fees of one orphan staying arbour area.I have been able to pay for my wards school fees.
Nowaday people normally rest at my shops due to the decorations have have made there.

1 sack of rice,and 1 sack of sugar

2 bandles of flour

goodmorning my lenders,below are some of the items i bought using the loan,25pcs of bar soap

cosmetics for my business.

Thanks for funding my loan application. I used the loan to purchase spare parts of motor bikes for my store. Indeed my revenue from sales of these stock increased as well as profit and that enabled me to repay the loan on time.
Thanks for your help.

Holidays are really enjoyable. With capital, i can manage to make good profits since people use that time to relax and enjoy themselves..For me i can manage to buy the novels and sell to people as i also read them to attain knowledge.

Packing of mangoes to be delivered to the market

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Pengepakan buah mangga untuk dikirim ke pasar

First of all, thanks to my dear lenders and Zidisha for the platform given to people like me to benefit from their loans. What the lenders and Zidisha founders are doing is really having positive impact on people's lives, especially we in the developing countries. God richly bless you all.

I would be much appreciative if you could lend me a loan to increase the automobile spare parts in my shop because most of my customers are in need of it. My capital for now can't buy them since all or most of my profit I used to take care of my family. I will use the loan to buy spare parts to help boost my business which will indirectly help the transportation in my society. I will be prompt in repaying. Thanks once again.

My previous loan which has been completed had help me in paying for my tuition in learning a skill in computing which has improve my personal development and enhanced the management of my business. Thank you very much to you all my lenders.

I did purchase 5 extra bundles of second hand clothing and also Building materials for the renovations of our family house.Indeed the Zidisha loan made a big difference, weekly sales i use to generate approximately $70 but now am able to generate $150 .Hence i use the weekly earnings to grow the business and ensure that there is sustainable growth and improve the standard of living.

I have successfully made another repayment today July 25, 2018 and wish to express my earnest appreciation to Zidisha Community (Zidisha Team and Lenders). Your assistance have been extremely helpful in my educational pursuit and words can never express my appreciation to you. I thank my lenders for their enormous assistance; I appreciate your contributions to me. A big thank you to Zidisha Director, staff and all Volunteers. God richly bless all of you.

Step by step the plane has take off,thank you zidisha for being supportive

Thank you lenders for your funds, I really appreciates your support, my business is now flowing well, I have harvested my maize and I am now planing to stock in sucks, then I will be able to notify you the number of sucks.

I have been able to plan very well with the profit ever since I bought my new generator to use in my barbering shop. It has cut down the huge electricity bill which affected my profit. The power system is now very reliable because anytime the nation power goes off, I quickly turn on the generator.
I have really made a good decision by taken this important loan.
I have paid back my loan successfully, and have planned to apply for another loan to buy three warmer and two more steriliser machines into the barbering shop.

Thank you lenders for the previous Loan .This loan made a big difference in my business because in introducing colour printing my profit margin increased with 30% increase.I used this increase to pay my monthly bills, pay rent and school fees.

I had an amazing experience with the previous loan. My business has really improved compared to earlier times. I have even been able to employ extra employees in my shop to help in the sales.
I owe my generous lenders plenty of gratitude for your much needed assistance which i could not be able to do it all by myself. Thank you very much and i promise to repay back the loan timely and am sure its going to help more in the business field. Thanks a lot

Sun dry of grass hay

The last loan l have just completed helped me a lot. Out of the sale of 70 bananas l initially bought, l have gradually improved in sales and in profit making hence l managed to do the following:
1. I painted my house in Kitale, since l do business in Nakuru.
2. I bought furniture
3. I ploughed a leased one acre farm in Kitale and planted maize and beans.
4. I also bought a dairy cow.

Thanks making me more than a farming.at work, cutting down star grass for silage making,preparation for next winter,

Hallo Craig, I received my first loan today thanks to you! I will repay the loan on time to increase my loan limit to take a bigger loan. I am looking forward to qualifying for a bigger loan to purchase a large stock for my small business. Thank you so much..

Hello lenders. It's with a lot of gratitude and happiness that I take this opportunity to notify you that I have today (23/07/2018)received the loan I requested after a successful loan funding from you through your generosity. This money will help me in addition of more goods in my already running business for a better income. I sincerely thank you for your generosity and will keep updating on the progress of my business and what I will buy with the loan you have funded.
I have received kshs 35,793.
This will help in cementing my business to prosperity.
may the Almighty God add you more for you to continue supporting WE small business entrepreneurs.

I have been able to meet the needs of my customers because of you, Zidisha thank you

For this loan,i will buy two dairy calves which will produce some milk after few years. I will use the milk in my operating restaurant and also in my family.
I will able to make manure through the dumps which i will use them in my home garden for vegetables. I will use the dumps to make biogas for home use.
These project will help more in my family and business thus why i say keep it up my lenders and Zidisha team as whole and may God keep you long.

Dear Lenders and Zidisha Team,
I want to apologize because only now I can provide updates again about the business of clothes shop that I run after some time ago I was busy by the offline activities including taking care of my sick child.
Thanks to God because now my son is healed and can play again with his friends including school back.

My clothing store business is also getting crowded because I have found some clothes suppliers that are directly taken from the production factory so I get a cheaper price.
The price of the product is one of the buyer pull factors, besides the quality of the product, by selling the cheaper product price then it can attract more interest.

Clothing is one of the main needs of every human being, regardless of age limitations, possessions etc. so clothing sales will continue to demand buyers.
I am grateful that my efforts can continue to grow and improve for the better, thanks to the help of our beloved lenders and the blessed Zidisha team.

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Dear Lenders and Zidisha Team,
I want to apologize because only now I can provide updates again about the business of clothes shop that I run after some time ago I was busy by the offline activities including taking care of my sick child.
Thanks to God because now my son is healed and can play again with his friends including school back.

My clothing store business is also getting crowded because I have found some clothes suppliers that are directly taken from the production factory so I get a cheaper price.
The price of the product is one of the buyer pull factors, besides the quality of the product, by selling the cheaper product price then it can attract more interest.

Clothing is one of the main needs of every human being, regardless of age limitations, possessions etc. so clothing sales will continue to demand buyers.
I am grateful that my efforts can continue to grow and improve for the better, thanks to the help of our beloved lenders and the blessed Zidisha team.

Dear Paul,
I want to take this chance to thank you most sincerely, first for believing in my project, secondly for investing your money in my project in form of a loan.
You lent me $10 which made a big improvement in my business. I used it to buy 25kg of sodium hydroxide, one of the chemicals I use to make bar soaps. My production went up by 200 bars, and my profit went up by 2%.
I will use that increase in profit to improve on my packaging.
Thank you so much, I look forward to working with you again and again in future. In case you want to be given any information about my country Kenya, or any other, please feel very free to contact me.
I have included a photo of the bars I was able to produce when I received the money. The bar soaps have not been stamped.
Best regards,

Denis Otieno Aloo

wireless tower ready for installation of antenna + router client

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tower wireless sudah siap tinggal pemasangan antena + router client