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Chriven Enterprise

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  • With EUR 45,600 Christine will be able to invest in the mechanization of the production process of beans and expand in Europe.

    €45,600
    Amount
    7.00%
    Interest
    6 months
    Maturity
    6 months
    Repayments
    EUR
    Currency
    Amount€45,600
    Interest7.00%
    Maturity6 months
    Repayments6 months
    CurrencyEUR
      100%
      Fully funded in 14 hours on 21 October 2016.

      Summary

      Christine and Kevin, wife and husband, are passionate about agriculture and its potential to grow the Kenyan economy sustainably. After gaining experience in the agriculture sector, they decided to start Chriven in 2009. With a modest start of exporting 2 tonnes of French beans per week to a buyer in Holland and one full-time employee, Chriven has blossomed in every way possible: employing more than 300 staff (with more than 80% as women), adding another buyer in the UK, expanding into 7 different vegetables and fruits, and increasing turnover from less than 1 million USD a year to more than 3.5 million USD a year. Chriven also supports SCREAM (Save the Children Reconciliation Education and Assistant Ministry) Africa Children's Home with their first donation of a crate of French beans in 2013. To date, Chriven has donated more than 800 crates of fresh vegetables and continues to donate 6 crates each week to more than 150 abandoned and orphaned children.

      Chriven is pursuing its own path to self-sustainability. In 2016 alone, Christine and Kevin are now producing on a leased farm of 72 hectares, packing the produce in their own packing house complete with a cold storage room, and transporting the packaged produce in their own cold-storage truck. Although Chriven is only producing on less than half of the 72 hectares, they have a grand vision to become fully self-reliant by producing everything on this farm, introducing mechanization to increase production, and expanding into other countries in Europe and Africa. Your support will accelerate their vision while employing more than 50 full-time staff in less than 6 months.

      Company nameChriven Enterprise
      CEOChristine Kivila
      Founded2009-01-01
      LocationNaivasha
      SectorAgriculture
      Turnover€3,196,347.03
      Employees12

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      • With this investment 50 jobs are created
      • With this investment 200 lives are improved

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