Name: Romonah Omukhobero
Region: Muhuru Bay, Kenya
My name is Romonah Omukhobero. I live in Sirende, North Bungoma. I'm married with four children - two daughters and two sons.
We are maize and poultry farmers. Our income is very low and uncertain. Fertilizer is expensive and our produce selling price is very low, so life is difficult, but we just about meet our basic needs with around 2,000 shillings a month.
I am very involved in community activities and when I heard about sunnymoney I wanted to get involved and tell people about it! To be a franchisee, I had to market myself to my community; show myself to be honest, hard-working, committed and a person of self-respect. With help from the assistant chief and village elders, I secured 933 votes in four days!
I have so many dreams! When I secure some money, I’ll build a house with an iron sheet roof and rent some plots to traders. I will expand my poultry farming too, to earn more money.
When people buy this product, they will cut spending on kerosene, batteries and phone charging. They can buy more fertilizer and increase yield. People are so excited about it!
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It's fantastic being a franchisee with Sunnymoney. It's changed my
life.
It's such a good feeling to be able to sell solar products to my
community and have them feedback to me about how it's changing their
lives too.
My customers say that they no longer have to spend money on
kerosene for lighting or batteries for their radios, which means they
can save more and spend it on health and education. I've also got a
solar kit in my house and my whole family is benefitting.
The wonderful thing is that I am now the breadwinner of the family.
Expanding my Sunnymoney franchise will allow me to depend less on
maize farming and will make my income easier to predict and manage. I
believe I can sell up to 50 solar kits a day because over the past few
weeks I've been marketing them to my customers and creating demand.
They are eager to buy the products, particularly since I've been doing
demonstrations at meetings with village elders - which we call 'barazas' -
and at churches, youth groups, women's groups, weddings and even
funerals, which can last several days here.
I look forward to updating you again soon,
Romonah
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