Simon Okiror

This bussiness has wonderfully started to use the loan money that they received from Kiva.

They received a loan money worth $500. They have started buying varities of human medicines to msupport the poorest of the poor sick people who can not go out for treatment in the main hospital.

I will give you the details of the drugs when the shoping is already done.

More about this bussiness will come in three weeks time.

Thanks alot for supporting this bussiness with money for loan. This will lift them to another state of living for these are the poor of the poorest.

Yours Moses Onyango.

To day, the most important place to every person in Uganda both in town and Villages around are the following:

• Health Centres

• Dispensaries

• Clinics

• Drug shops

The most common killer disease here in Uganda more than HIV/Aids is Malaria. In each family at least there are 2-3 member of the family suffering from malaria each.

The cause is that the swarm is un controlled mosquitoes are all around due to lakes, rivers,wells, swamps, stagnant water’s are all around. Uganda receives rainfall through out the year. So water is ever flowing.

Now this business that is deep in the village acts as a bridge between the patents and the hospital. From the place of this business to Soroti town is 34 kilometers.

When this business got the loan money, stocked their drug shop with all sorts of medicine that can treat malaria and some first aid measures.

They have over 200 customers coming for medicine from far and near each day. According to their book keepers record.

Every each day they can sell up to 300,000/= Ugandan shillings with a profit of 80,000/= Shs

This makes me to believe that of all our Kiva business, this is the only high profited business.

I will give you more details of this business in the next Journal.

Thanks for supporting this business.

This business sold of their items of different kind of produce that they bought with the loan money. They got 40% profit of the total sell because they were lucky that traders from Kenya crossed over to Uganda and bought their goods.

They didn’t spend money in hiring the Vehicles to go out to the main market to meet the middle man.

These were the commodities sold:

1. Millet 1,200 Kgs

2. Sorghum 960 Kgs

3. Simsim 600 Kgs

4. Peas 800 Kgs

5. Beans 1,360 Kgs

6. Cash nuts 2,200 Kgs

7. Sunflower 700 Kgs

8. Dry cassava 1,840 Kgs

Right now, they are stocking another lot of many other items. They are targeting to sell them before Chrismas time. According to their book keepers record, this business is profitable.

They will be able to increase the stock and also raise money for baying back the loan money.

Thanks a lot for supporting this business.

The drug shop is inceasingly expanding both the drugs, the customers and even the place where the drug shop operates from, is expanded.

More drugs are stocked of various diseases, more patients are flocking the place and in most cases some come to the drug shop when they are extremely ill, and because of that serious case, he has got emergency beds (rest rooms) if the patient is un able to walk back home after treatment.

The drug shop has become so vital in the community, because it has got laboratory services operating now. It is also used as a sensitization centre about AIDs scourge, six killer diseases in children and prevention measures of controlling malaria.

Thank you for supporting this business because it’s making a different in the poor people in the community where it’s situated. Even the owner of the drug shop is benefiting too.

Thanks, HAPPY NEW YEAR

steadia

Reporter.

I send you all my appreciattional greetings to you all my funders. First and fore most Glory be to the heavenly father who has always protected, provided and blessed me in all ways that I am a live up to date. I have been running a medicine shop (drug shop). Since for 2 years till I saw no more progress in my life and business. I used to struggle much on how to live with my family. But I thank God that in October 2005, God blessed me with a loan from Kiva. Kiva has made it possible to increase my drug shop by resurrecting it, and it has increased by 50%, my customers have increased possibly because how they can all the drugs that they need for treatment of common diseases like malaria, cough, flue, and others I can now eat meat atleast four times a week, family clothing has become possible as my Children can now afford uniform for school, I can now travel to the City to buy drugs cheaply and come and sell in my drug shop with a lot of profits.

The drug shop has helped much the rural people of my Community in that the people used to suffer travel to town areas to seek medical help in hospitals and expensively where most people I could die of common diseases that my drug shop is now able to treat before the situation worsens. The people are being helped much with the drug shop and now in a day I received more than 30 sick people that after visiting my drug shop get treated and became fine at affordable treatment see people no longer die of diseases like malaria, diarrhea as the drug shop is near them and they get treatment at any moment and access drugs that they deserve at the drug shop.

I want once more to thank you for supporting me, this loan has helped me so much and most the people of my community to restore their health and now they are able to carry on them daily struggle of work as it was before in the case where they fail sick and fail to work causing them to die and became poorer and poorer. Kindly continue to fund us through Kiva loan and surely our lives always of living with change positively.

Grate Joy will feel my heart if you will be able to continue funding us through Kiva loans so that even other people who did not get the chance for getting a loan from Kiva when we get so that their lives can also be improved and eventually changed.

Yours,

Simon Okiror.

Mr. Simon Okiror is doing very well with his drug shop and above all the community of where he comes from is enjoying so much in the service of his drug shop and with the progress Mr. Okiror has achieved in his drug shop in this short period of three month since he received the loan from Kiva Office last year, Mr. Okiror’s drug shop is doing well and now has improved to the level that it has opened a laboratory where tests for sicknesses like Malaria, Tuberculosis, and Typoid including Syphillis in his drug shop. Mr. Okiror is doing very well with his drug shop and at least now it has even drugs that are rarely got from Government Hospitals and here it has enabled him earn more profit due to a number of patients that come all over his community and those at a distance to come and seek medical attention in his drug shop and with a number of patients like more than twenty a day, Okiror gets a lot of profits at his drug shop from the sale of drugs more than ever before.

Thanks,

Joseph

Reporter

Simon is one of the active business man, who have a vision in his work. He carrys out his business in Soroti town. Through the loan money that he borrowed from Kiva, it has enabled him extend his shop of medicines by stocking many drugs. He gets many patients who come for treatment and consultations.

Simon has grown in the business for this has convinced me that with time to come it shall have gone beyond this and there is a hope that this business will not collapse. His family live a health life, and the community around appreciate for the work he is doing.

More updates will come soon.

Thanks,

Hellen

Reporter.

 

God blesses

By  Okiror Simon.

Report from business owner

 

The loan money I borrowed from them.  He first begun with few drugs in his drug shop after selling three goats then after he was granted 100,000/= by Village Enterprise Fund then when he borrowed money from Kiva Fund.

 

Okiror Simon copying up well. He has  purchased various drugs in his drug shop.  He has managed to capture a number of customers and the turn over  of his business good. This is because he has a variety of different kind of drugs to his drug shop. Okiror Simon  says  he gets more profits of about 70% compared to when he had not added his stock.

He has employed one nursing aid to help him in running the drug shop.

 

Okiror Simon says he has a vision of increasing his stock of drugs so that he can sale in whole sale to other retail drug shops and this will happen immediately after I have cleared off the loan money.  After which he will borrow another loan for that proposed plan.

 

The business is doing well and  I feel his goals shall be obtained. Okiror can handle loan money  of Kiva with with care and he has attended some training on how to handle business by the village enterprise fund.

Okiror’s family is doing well, he can at list meet the needs of his family, meet the costs of school fees and medication. Okiror says he has bought four bulls for plough for his family, and an ox –plough for ploughing his gardens. He now has enough food for his family it’s a very good achievement to poses those properties in a family without you are a man. He is even planning to construct a ironed sheet house for his family and the community around this drug shop is very happy and have appreciated the work of Okiror Simon renders to them.

 

I will get you informed next time.

 

Thanks

 

Stella 

Reporter.

 

 

My name is Hellen, Staff Kiva. reporting on the success and progress of Simons business. Last month When I visited him he was much happy from the face. Him and all the family sends greetings to all Kiva supporters, for the good work that your doing to Africa.

From the loan profit, he is hoping to pay off the remaining balance that he is left with by this month. and Also has built a house for the business which is left to be renovated. And the family to get good life out of profit e.g feeding, clothing, education etc.

More updates will reach you soon.

Thanks,

Hellen,

Reporter.