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SimGas Kenya Ltd. 4

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  • With a loan of EUR 202,400 SimGas will provide biogas digesters to 300 farmers in Muranga county for clean energy.

    €202 400
    Montant
    6,50%
    Intérêt
    36 mois
    Maturité
    6 mois
    Remboursements
    EUR
    Devise
    Montant€202 400
    Intérêt6,50%
    Maturité36 mois
    Remboursements6 mois
    DeviseEUR
      100%
      Entièrement financé en 21 jours sur 16 Mai 2017.

      Résumé

      IMPORTANT NOTE: high risk product - direct loan to biogas company. No local partner in between to cover risks.


      Basic info

      Issuer: SimGas Kenya Ltd.
      Currency: EUR
      Amount: EUR 202,400 (senior debt)
      Maturity: 36 months, semi-annually and linearly amortizing
      Collateral: None
      Interest rate: 6.5% p.a.

      SimGas has the right to do an early repayment with a penalty fee of 1%. No early repayment is possible during the first 12 months of the loan.


      Direct loan

      This is a direct loan to a company (rather than lending to a financial institution) and therefore it is recommendable that you are careful with the amount you will invest. 


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      Impact so far

      SimGas is proud to announce that, with the support of the Lendahand crowd in the previous 3 rounds, we achieved the following results:  

      • We have sold 505 biogas digesters and counting! Helping these families to save 26.765 USD every month and reduce greenhouse gas emissions with 4.146 tonne CO2-eq. per year.  
      • We are scaling up operations in Kenya. We have hired 10 new sales people and 18 new technicians. 
      • We have opened 9 new hubs Muranga, Kangema and Meru counties. A hub is a small shop, with stock, operated by a team of sales reps and technicians. 
      • We have closed contracts with 10 dairy cooperatives, connecting us with 12,000 farmers. 
      • We are endorsed by Muranga County Creamers Cooperative Union to sign even more contracts with their dairy cooperatives, and jointly open 30 SimGas Biogas & Dairy Shops in the area.  

      We are hoping for your support to provide loans for another 300 farmers, living in Muranga county, Kenya!

      Summary SimGas

      SimGas is a triple bottom line company that designs, produces and installs biogas systems for smallholder farmers in East-Africa. SimGas has facilities in Kenya (est. 2013, 60 employees), Tanzania (est. 2011, 20 employees) and The Netherlands (est. 2009, 12 employees). The biogas systems enable rural households with livestock to use the manure from their livestock to generate clean fuel for cooking and organic fertiliser: two valuable assets to increase income whilst saving life, nature, money and time. The high quality, modular, domestic biogas systems can be installed in 2 days. To date, SimGas has provided 1,500 farmers with their biogas systems.

      What does SimGas drive to design, produce and install biogas systems? More than 3 billion people worldwide are being exposed to toxic fumes, fuels and dangerous open fires while cooking their meals (FAO, 2008). In East-Africa, 95% of households use wood or charcoal (FAO, 2009). Inhaling acrid smoke and fine particulates causes risks of skin, eye and lung diseases. The direct consequences cause 4 million people worldwide to die each year (WHO, 2011). ). Lower respiratory disease is the number 2 cause of death in Kenya, after HIV/AIDS and Malaria ranking at number 3 (WHO, 2013). Biogas is a clean cooking fuel and thereby eliminates indoor air pollution, putting an end to one of Kenya’s top cause of death and disease.

      SimGas desires to enable their customers to become more productive, independent, cost-efficient, and healthier farmers. Next to that they want to make biogas accessible not just for the lucky few, but for the worthy many. That’s precisely what the biogas systems do. By doing so, SimGas helps create healthy and safe environments for rural households while contributing to the reduction of indoor air pollution, deforestation, and carbon emissions.

      SimGas’s business model is as follows: to the clients, an interest rate is charged for the loans which enable them to buy a SimGas system. The company also takes a small margin on the biogas systems itself. 

      Next to that, SimGas has a deal with the World Bank (Ci-Dev) that buys carbon credits, which allows SimGas to provide a discount on the systems of EUR 200 each. Thanks to selling these credits, SimGas can provide a guarantee and full service for 5 years. On average, the systems will remain functional for approx. 20 years.

      View http://simgas.org/about-simgas/

      The project

      With a loan of EUR 202,400, SimGas will provide a loan to another 300 farmers living in Muranga county, Kenya, to enable them to each acquire a SimGas biogas system. These systems allow farmers to produce clean gas by digesting the manure of their cows. This provides huge benefits as they are no longer required to cook on open fires and breath in toxic fumes. The biogas systems also produce organic fertiliser, which can be used on their land or sold to other farmers. 

      SimGas has been endorsed by the Muranga Creamers Union - the umbrella organisation of 35 dairy cooperatives with a member base of 45,000 farmers in the area - to sign contracts with these dairy cooperatives to set up SimGas shops on their premises. Out of the 45,000 members an estimated 15,000 sell more than enough milk to the dairy cooperatives on a daily basis to be able to afford a biogas digester. SimGas plans to open up 30 SimGas shops at 30 dairy cooperatives to sell biogas digesters to the dairy’s member farmers. In this way the farmers can pay with milk to pay off their biogas digesters, using the existing financial systems of their trusted dairy cooperative. In turn, the dairy cooperative pays SimGas. The payment agreements with the dairy cooperatives will be monitored by SimGas Kenya head office. 

      The 300 biogas digesters will be sold, installed and serviced by the SimGas Muranga hub team. 

      Watch how a biogas digester is being installed

      Impact 4th loan

      With this loan 300 families and thus approx. 1,500 Kenyans living in Muranga county are impacted. They will enjoy the benefits of cooking on clean gas and on having access to organic fertiliser. The impact is quite significant and is as follows:

      • Health benefits as people do not have to cook on fossil fuels such as charcoal or wood, and thus eliminate the consumption of toxic fumes (the equivalent of 20 cigarettes per day)
      • On average, people save 35-45% of their household budget, which they do not have to spend on wood fuel (Kenya Bureau of Statistics, 2015)
      • Additional income of EUR 270 on average as a result of using the organic fertiliser on their land (a 25-200% increase of crops) and/or selling it to other farmers nearby
      • Preventing the cut down of approx. 7.42 tonnes of wood per year (Kenya’s forest declined from 10% to 1.7% of its total territory between 1963 and 2016)(UNESCO, 2006)
      • Preventing an average of more than 8 tonnes of CO2-eq emission per year per household
      • Saving approx. 2-4 hours per day for a family as it takes much longer to cook on firewood and clean all the pots and the kitchen as compared to using biogas. Furthermore it is no longer required to gather wood or going to the market to buy firewood or charcoal.

      SimGas’s business model is as follows; to the clients, an interest rate is charged for the loans which enable them to buy a SimGas system. The company also takes a small margin on the biogas systems itself.

      Next to that, SimGas has a deal with the World Bank (Ci-Dev) that buys carbon credits, which allows SimGas to provide a discount on the systems of EUR 200 each. Thanks to selling these credits, SimGas can provide a guarantee and full service for 5 years. On average, the systems will remain functional for approx. 20 years.

      More information on SimGas:

      Vision & Mission

      SimGas believes in empowering people by offering them graceful, reliable and sustainable tools that help to improve their lives and income positions.

      SimGas takes social and environmental impact just as seriously as economic impact. We are creating impact through mass production, modularity and standardisation, combined with highly scalable business models. Our secret is the combination of local presence, great partnerships and smart investments in research and development. We measure what we do, learn from the results, and adjust our strategy accordingly. This is what makes SimGas a true trailblazer and helps us create immediate impact that lasts.

      SimGas aims to be a game changer and is already the largest supplier of biogas systems in Africa. We have the ambition to improve the lives of 1 million people by 2022. In order to accomplish this goal, we are scaling up in our home markets and in close collaboration with local partners we will ramp up sales in neighbouring countries Rwanda, Ethiopia, and Uganda.


      Management team

      Mirik Castro – CEO SimGas East Africa

      Mirik (MSc., TU Delft) is a systems engineer in Policy Analysis and Management. He is a serial entrepreneur, having established Holland Turnaround, John’s Phone and other companies in the Netherlands, and has previously worked at Boston Consulting Group and Stork NV. As CEO of SimGas East Africa, he manages a growing team of 80 employees, including admin, sales, production, and installation crew in Tanzania and Kenya. Mirik lives with his family in Tanzania since 2011.

      Oliver Kynaston – COO SimGas East Africa

      Oliver (MSc., Bristol University, UK) is a physicist, researcher, patent holder, brewer, and hang glider pilot. With the belief that developing products for the off-grid market in East Africa can teach the world how to live sustainably, Oliver moved to Tanzania in 2010 to start a business in renewable energy products for households. SimGas persuaded him in 2015 to lead our operations in Tanzania and Kenya. Under his wings, a team of more than 80 is making households in East Africa (including his own) happy with biogas.

      Arne Kühl – Financial Manager SimGas East Africa 

      Arne (MSc., Business Administration, University of Passau) recently joined the SimGas East Africa team with the motivation to support SimGas’ purpose in providing rural households with the opportunity to become more independent and to improve their living standards by offering an innovative and affordable product. With his impressive skill set and past experience as Assistant Head of Finance at HCI Capital AG, Senior Consultant in auditing and transaction services, and Head of Finance at e.ventures in Hamburg, we feel more confident than ever in realizing our mission having Arne on board!

      Christina Mng'ong'o - Factory & Supply Chain Manager

      Christina (Msc, Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology) joined SimGas in October 2013 as Quality officer, Hub Manager of the Tanga branch, Deputy factory Supervisor for Gesishamba Production Ltd factory. She worked her way up to become Factory- and Supply Chain manager. Christina is the youngest SimGas employee and is an expert in injection moulding- and biogas technology.

      Moses Gekara – Country Manager SimGas Kenya

      Moses Ogeto is a trained engineer in Computer Science and HSSE planner. He has worked for 3N International as Database/Data Entry before Joining National Bank of Kenya in the same capacity. He has worked for 14 years as Operations manager for Pressure Vessels Ltd. He joined SimGas Kenya as Country Manager in October 2013 and has since then been of tremendous value in operations and sales. Moses knows all our customers in Kenya!

      Track record:

      http://simgas.org/trackrecord/

      2016 highlights:

      • World Bank’s Ci-Dev buys 500,000 carbon credits generated by our biogas systems
      • Winner IDEO.org Amplify Challenge with our Biogas Milk Chiller
      • USAID’s Powering Agriculture grantee

      2015 highlights:

      • Biogas Milk Chiller prototypes in Tanzania
      • Pilot for bio-sanitationsystems at schools in Kenya and Tanzania
      • Winner Lettinga Award

      2014 highlights:

      • Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade & Development Cooperation Ms. Lilianne Ploumen opens our new production line in Tanzania
      • Inclusion in the Africa Biogas Partnership Programme
      • Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves Spark fund grantee
      • Ashden Awards Finalist

      2013 highlights:

      • Founded SimGas Kenya Ltd., sales start in Kenya
      • Start product development of Biogas Milk Chiller and Biogas Stove 
      • Siemens Empowering People Award Finalist

      2012 highlights:

      • Mirik Castro moves to Tanzania to start local production and sales
      • Founded SimGas Tanzania Ltd.
      • UNFCCC registered Biogas Program of Activities (PoA) for the trade of carbon credits

      (Picture of Moses with one of the assembly teams in Kenya)

      Previously realized

      http://simgas.org/projects/

      Nom de l’entrepriseSimGas Kenya Ltd. 4
      PDGMirik Castro
      Création2013-01-01
      LieuMuranga
      SecteurProjets d'énergie durable
      Chiffre d'affaires€200 000
      Employés108

      Impact

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      • Grâce à cet investissement 10 emplois sont créés
      • Grâce à cet investissement 300 digesteurs biogaz sont installés
      • Avec cet investissement 1500 sont améliorées
      • Grâce à cet investissement 2400 tonnes de CO2 sont évitées

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