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Help Stan get his own home

  • The end of the story..

      8 August 2020
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    Hi All

    An update on Stan.

    While we fell short of what was need to buy a house the money still makes a huge impact for him.

    He has bought an Acre of Land near his family village. He says its good land because its near government radio master so it has lighting, security and road access. One day he intends to build a brick house on it.

    Until then it is cropped in maize this gives his family produce to sell.

    He remains working at the orphanage but with the extra money he had left over he bought two motorbikes.

    He says:

    “We have bike business being popular here in Kenya and so we have a lot of young people getting PSV licenses to ride motorcycles. It is like a taxi, you park it somewhere where we have a lot of people or near a villa where people come in and out and then you ride them to the bus stop so am not the one riding it and I don't have a PSV license but I have employed a young dude to do it for me. He can make around 500 or 600 a day but he has to fuel it, give me my 200 at the end of the day and he keeps the balance for himself, so if he makes more then he gets more as long as I get mine.”

    So that’s a big help for him potential bringing him in 6,000 a month which helps for his rent of 10,000 per month

    Again thanks for your support. Its helped Stan, his Family and now apparently given two other young guys employment.

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  • Just through the halfway point.

      21 May 2020
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    A quick update on the effort so far. $5,200 raise is a great effort and Stan is very pleased. While it's clear we wont get to the need amount for a mortgage free home (picture attached is one hes looking at) what has been given is enough for him to look at many opportunities to provide for himself and his family through starting up a business, he shared a few:

    1. Transport business,

    we have these little tricycles here used mainly for private transport like uber where you can make kes 1500 a day. You can get one for kes 200k

    2. Small retail shop.

    This one can cost kes 150k to start it.

    3. Poultry farming.

    You can rent a place for kes 10k per month or if you own a place, have chicken for meat and eggs. This one can take kes 70k to start then earn around kes 2k a day.

    4. Buy farmland in the village.

    You can buy half an acre or even an acre for kes 200k and this is a huge piece of land. Then you can have crops like onions, tomatoes, potatoes, poultry etc. Then sell them for a good amount as they are the most needed food in our country.

    The list goes on and on so no matter where this fundraising takes us it will have a great impact on my life as I have a whole bunch of options of things I can do.

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