Pure Green Grocery
Helping a Trained Woman Entrepreneur Move from Survival to Growth
Purity completed six months of practical business training with Civicom Aid from January to June 2024, covering customer acquisition, productive capital, business site improvement, financing, business modelling, and record keeping.
Her business data shows existing customers, clear demand, growth needs, useful records, and readiness for productive support.
Purity currently sells tomatoes and other produce from a woven plastic sheet on the street floor.
Dust, heat, poor display, hygiene concerns, and limited storage cause spoilage, reduce value, and risk customer loss.
Purity seeks USD 1,950 for an ice-cooled storage box, raised display tables, new site, clean crates, stock varieties, and bicycle delivery support.
This support will improve hygiene, storage, display, customer trust, delivery capacity, sales, and business stability.
The project is expected to protect Purity’s owner-manager job and create seller and distributor jobs in phases. Purity has already returned her three children to school, and return of new employee children to school is expected.
Pure Green Grocery serves at least 15 households, 5 food kiosks, and 33 door-to-door customers daily. Future clients may include Mombasa tourist hotels and restaurants. The business may also source from remote village suppliers boosting marginalized rural incomes.
Danilux Enterprises
Danilux Enterprises supports Ms. Peris Kabingu, a mother of three, Grade 12 graduate, and certified soap and detergent producer with two years’ practical experience.
From January to June 2024, she completed six months of Civicom Aid training in customer acquisition, growth capital, business site planning, financing sources, business modelling, detergent production, and record keeping.
After training, Peris borrowed two basins from a friend, used savings for tools, and started production in her bedroom, also used as storage.
Readiness is clear. She serves 18 women household clients, 6 walk-in clients, and food kiosks weekly. Records show prospective orders from 53 women and 31 men.
The problem is slow production, limited equipment, unsafe workspace, delayed licensing, and lack of gloves. Customers declined from 32 to 18 regular buyers and from 23 to 6 walk-ins weekly. Production could not retain clients now grow.
Without support, Peris risks losing clients, income, reinvestment capital, and school support.
She seeks USD 2,100 for equipment, raw materials, licensing, and safety items to produce herbal bar soap and powder washing soap.
The grant will retain her owner-manager job and create phased jobs for producers, packaging assistants, sales agents, and delivery distributors.
One child has returned to school. Future employee income should help more out-of-school children return to class.
Zuma Grocery
Zuma Grocery supports Zuma Chai, a father of nine, Grade 2 graduate, and grocery operator with two years’ experience selling vegetables, fruits, and root tubers.
From January to June 2024, he completed six months of Civicom Aid training in customer acquisition, growth capital, business site planning, financing sources, business modelling, stock sourcing, and record keeping.
After training, Zuma collected old wood and iron sheets from construction sites, built a street vegetable stall, secured stock from a grower, and started selling.
Readiness is clear. He serves 25 household clients and 11 walk-in buyers weekly. Records show prospective orders from 82 women and 15 men.
The problem is unsteady supply and poor hygiene. Regular customers declined from 110 to 25 weekly, while walk-in buyers fell from 34 to 11.
Without support, Zuma risks losing clients, income, reinvestment capital, and ability to keep children in school.
He seeks USD 1,910 for an ice-cooled storage box, raised display tables, a safer site, clean crates, stock varieties, and bicycle delivery.
The grant will stabilize supply, improve hygiene, reduce spoilage, retain his owner-manager job, and create phased seller and distributor jobs.
Three of his nine children have returned to school. Future employee income should help more children return to class.
Dimos Tailors
Dimos Tailors supports Syprine Adoyo, a mother of five, Grade 12 graduate, certified tailor-cutter, and skilled garment maker.
From January to June 2024, she completed six months of Civicom Aid training in customer segment & acquisition, growth capital, business site planning, financing sources, business modelling, and record keeping.
After training, Syprine borrowed money from her brother, one sewing machine from a friend, and a stool from her mother to start Dimos Tailors on a street-side veranda, Likoni slum area.
Readiness is clear. She serves 15 household clients and 5 walk-in clients weekly. Records show prospective orders from 8 schools seeking uniforms, 12 clinics seeking aprons, and 7 hotels seeking uniforms.
The problem is limited production capacity. Repair and adjustment clients wait beyond agreed time, sending away at least 3 customers weekly and reducing profits.
Without support, Syprine risks irregular work, low reinvestment income, delayed orders, and pressure on children’s education.
She seeks USD 1,670 grant for sewing machines, an overlock machine, an embroidery machine, and fabric stock.
The grant will stabilize operations, protect her owner-manager livelihood, and create phased jobs for sewists, tailor-cutters, and client acquisition agents.
Two of her five children have returned to school. Future employee income is expected to help additional out-of-school children return and stay in classrooms through high school and colleges.
Budini Poultry
Budini Poultry supports 16 women members in Budini remote village. The women hold Civicom Aid certificates in poultry farming and have two years’ practical experience rearing poultry.
From January to June 2024, they completed six months of training in customer acquisition, growth capital, business site planning, financing sources, business modelling, poultry rearing, stock sourcing, and record keeping.
After training, the team received donated hens and a cock from family members and used Miria’s kitchen as a temporary poultry house. Two hatching rounds grew the flock to 46 birds.
Readiness is clear. Records show prospective buyers from 8 food kiosks, 4 restaurants, and 2 churches ready to buy eggs and meat.
The problem is unsafe housing, lack of feeders, and lack of poultry medicines. Rats, eagles, snakes, lice, and diseases reduced the flock to 5 birds twice.
Without support, the women risk repeated losses, low income, dependence on relatives, and children staying out of school.
Women seeks USD 1,210 for a poultry house, feeders, poultry medicines, and two hybrid cocks.
The grant will stabilize production and create 15 jobs for women workers, site sellers, marketers, distributors, and roadside chicken sellers.
Future income should help out-of-school children return to class.
Kosi
Kosi Take Away supports Ms. Kosi Kosi, a mother of seven with no formal schooling, a Civicom Aid certificate in food vending, and two years’ experience selling tea and snacks.
From January to June 2024, she completed six months of training in customer acquisition, growth capital, business site planning, financing sources, business modelling, stock sourcing, and record keeping.
After training, Kosi made a rolling stick, borrowed a frying pan, received wheat flour and cooking oil from a nearby shop, and secured support from Zuma Grocery to restart.
Readiness is clear. She serves 10 nearby women and schoolchildren, plus 3 walk-in clients weekly. Records show prospective orders from 51 women and 15 walk-in buyers.
The problem is weak equipment, unsteady supply, poor hygiene, and dust exposure. Regular customers declined from 92 to 10 weekly, while walk-ins fell from 34 to 3.
Without support, Kosi risks closure, low income, dependence on relatives, and children remaining out of school.
She seeks USD 510 for a frying pan, tables, chairs, and added stock.
The grant will stabilize supply, improve hygiene, retain her owner-manager job, and create seller and distributor jobs in phases.
One child has returned to school. Future employee income should help more children return to class.