By Betsy Ramser Jaime
Amos Muthama is a Meteorologist by profession. For his college years, he received his first degree in Meteorology from the University of Nairobi. Then, earned a Master’s degree in Physics with the Institute for Meteorological Training and Research.
When Amos first got started with Zidisha, he was already operating his shop, but had dreams of also running a cyber cafe as well. Through his partnership with Zidisha, Amos has been able to bring this dream to fruition. So far, in his time with Zidisha, he has proudly raised 10 Zidisha funded loans.
With his first few Zidisha funded loans, Amos was able to slowly expand his stock within his business. He happily shared, ‘These items will bring more money and thus more profit to my baraka shop business. I will buy more items for my shop and I will create more business for my customers in my shop. I will enlarge my small business to bigger one which can make huge profit than the one I have been getting.’
By July 2019, Amos was ready to continue receiving Zidisha funded loans, now with the intent to purchase computers for his newly opened cyber cafe. Amos then successfully raised two more loans in 2019, one for $200 in September and another for $400 in November as he explained, ‘I will use the money to buy more items in the shop for expansion for more profit. I will also buy cyber cafe equipment for the new shop project for variety business….I highly appreciated your money which really helped me for my business growth.’
So far, in 2020, Amos has continued to raise funds to expand his goods in his shop and to also purchase additional laptops and equipment for his cyber cafe.
Recently, on March 20, 2020, Amos took to his discussion page and expressed his thanks to lenders as he said, ‘I highly thank all my lenders who wholeheartedly funded my loan into full amount when I know that this amount will highly help to improve my business….may God all of them plentiful….’
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