This is Regina and her grandson Micah. Micah’s mother passed on 4 years ago leaving him with his grandmother. She was just fifteen years when she died leaving her child. She was a secondary student in a local school. She fell ill for just one day and passed on due to meningitis. Micah goes to a local academy and his grandmother (Regina) operates a small fish business in the Daraja market. He is a sickly boy constantly in and out of hospital for check ups which sometimes interrupt his education.
This is Regina at the market. When the Captivating/ACDF team first visited Regina she had a bunch of fish for sale. As the focus was to help the young Micah, Captivating offered her a loan to expand the fish business at Daraja Mbili market.
She buys 10kg of fish at Kshs.1800 and sells them at Kshs. 3000 within two days. She sells for four days in a week. Fish is usually brought from the Lake Victoria which is far away. So sometimes the prices are so unfavourable to the extent that on a bad day she can make Kshs. 300. In a months time she makes an average of Kshs. 9600 i.e $120 as profit from this business.
This, in addition to her second hand clothes business, she is able to cater for the needs of Micah who is now on holiday and helping out in the sale of second hand clothes. This is one of a hundred stories of families seeing a road to a better future ahead thanks to your generousity.
Contact andrewc@captivating.org for more details about our partnership with the African Community Development Foundation and our joint micro-finance program specifically focused on creating a better future for orphaned children in Kisii, Kenya.
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