BEFORE – This is Flora and her two fostered children – Michael and Jeremy. After she had was married she was given these children when they were toddlers to take care of. Their parents were dying from HIV/AIDS and none of the relatives were willing to care for them. Flora’s heart broke for these two children. Flora is a small scale business lady farming maize to sell at the market. She has been struggling from day to day to make ends meet. She knew the future was stable only if she could expand her business but she had no extra capital to do this. Captivating/ACDF took up the case and she joined the program.
TODAY – Previously, Flora hired a plot of land and planted maize. She had been harvesting around 10 sacks of maize. Upon joining the program, she has improved the infrastructure and soil quality of this plot and expects to harvest around 16 sacks this season. She is also buying maize in bulk from other farmers at Ksh 3,000 per sack. She then on-sells this sack after cleaning and bagging it for Kshs. 3,800- 4,000. Averagely she makes a profit of Kshs 900 per sack. In a month she can sell 6 sacks making a profit of US$67 in the month. With the average cost of feeding, clothing and schooling a child around $50 a month, this helps her financial situation greatly. Flora is so grateful for the support she is getting from Captivating. She is pictured above shaking hands with Everlyne – Captivating’s Regional Program Manager in Kisii, Kenya.
If you would like to learn more about Captivating’s Micro-Finance program in partnership with ACDF, email andrewc@captivating.org Currently 80 families are in the loans program – a program ultimately focused on bringing financial stability to families either currently caring for orphans in and around Kisii, or families wishing to do so if we the can help them become financially capable.
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