Samuel Ndung'u Mburu

Samuel Ndung'u Mburu was raising seven children on his 1.5 acre plot he inherited from his father.  With no prospects for employment in his village, he went to Nairobi to look for work that paid enough to keep his family alive.

Salaried work was hard to find, so he tried to support his family by selling roasted corn on the roadside, sending home the little he earned. But the city council did not like peddlers, so he was constantly harassed by local authorities.  He tried to open a fruit stand but that required a license which he could not afford.
 
Frustrated, but not defeated, he returned to his family (this was in 1999).  In his village, he saw our then brand new Super MoneyMaker Pump outside a local shop.  Samuel's friend knew the shopkeeper and was able to convince him to let Samuel have a pump with a down payment and allow him to pay the balance after his harvest.

Prosperity came quickly. Before he bought his pump, he earned, at most, $50 twice a year when he harvested his rain-fed crops.  But with his pump, he now grows high-value tomatoes and French Beans and earns between $250 and $500 every three months.  He has rented more land to farm and now has six acres under cultivation.
 
His oldest son just graduated from the local technical college.  Samuel was able to pay for tuition and buy his son a bike so he could get to class.  His second oldest son is studying to be an electrician.  The other children are in primary or secondary school.  When asked about his achievement, Samuel's son points to the MoneyMaker pump and says that it he never could have gone to school if his father had not bought the MoneyMaker.
 
Samuel now makes enough to afford a petrol pump to irrigate his land, but he still uses his MoneyMaker on some of his land loans his pump to his brother and his aunt.
 
His next goal is to buy more land so he can leave each of his children a substantial plot of their own--and he is well on way to achieving it.
 
Standing in his field, you can see three other MoneyMaker pumps which were being used by his neighbors.  Samuel said that after observing him work for a number of seasons, his neighbors were inspired by his success. They saved up their money to buy their own MoneyMaker pumps and are now enjoying prosperity as well.  A few years ago, Samuel was one of the poorest men in his village.  Today he is a leader and role model.