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PETER +254 724 735767
I came to Coral Bells By Tsavo towards the end of April 2021 and was immediately drawn to the sense of community that Tsavo is well known for.
I made many friends, and I felt at home. I remember thinking to myself that there was no other place where I had ever felt such a kind of belonging.
I had 2 cousins who had moved to Tsavo some months before, and they introduced me to most of their friends, telling them how I made delicious food and cleaned well, and in a short while, I was in business!
I started cooking meals for people and getting cleaning gigs from the very same friends and neighbors in Tsavo. It’s been 2 years now, and Tsavo has made it possible for me to earn a living for myself and also support my family, especially my younger sister, who was involved in a road accident that left her paralyzed and wheelchair-bound and needs around-the-clock care. If it were not for the business I have been able to run in Tsavo I wouldn’t be able to offer her such support.
I am very grateful to Tsavo for creating a place where one can live and still run a business at the same time.
Living here has changed my thinking in so many ways, in that I now believe it’s possible to start making some income and saving some of it to invest and start growing your wealth.
My dream is to see myself growing my catering and cleaning business across all Tsavo apartments- I have been encouraged and inspired much by the Tsavo founders’ story of how it all began, and as Tsavo grows, I would like to grow with it too, and eventually buy an apartment or two!
Thank you.
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āOga Oh,ā āmy brodaā and āTing! Second Floor!ā are all Iām hearing right now as I enter my key on this lonely door.
The time is 7.05 p.m. The creaking of the elevator is crazy here. Hysterical Laughs and sarcastic coughs are so ubiquitous around here. Iām getting into my new house, B205.
Wait, let me sort this transport guy. My house looks a mess! Damn! All my items are in one corner. Where are my Airforce shoes? Oh, I put them in the microwave. Really Melvin! Microwave, shoes! Do I even have lights in this house? Let me check. Kwani what time is it? Oops! My phone is 8%. How do I get power in this house? Mum talked of tokens. Sasa how does she go about it.
Oh yeah, let me call Noureen. āHey Noureen, sasa? aki I donāt have power in my house, and my neighbors do, what might be the problem?……… āHiā¦which room numberā¦do you have your meter number?… yesā¦that is it, yes that one,888880ā¦tokens⦠you have, ok, you have the message? yeah⦠press ENTERā¦ā This is how Iāll be getting power in my house? Wow, anyway, one problem down.
So, what next? Supper or cleaning? Meeeen! So, what do I eatā¦Aki, someone take me back to my mumās place. That lady knows how to have everything running smoothly without a single struggle. I went out for a bulb, energy saving yeah, before I started planning my house.
āāIāll put my seat here, study table here, my portrait there. Yes, my shoe rack will be here. No, there is better.
That is how my first day in Tsavo Apartment felt like. I wasnāt sure if that was what I signed up for. Everything seemed to be in mute unless I did it. I was confused, stressed, tired, and almost ignorant of how things run when one stays alone.
Independence, something I had longed to have, was now scaring me.
I learned that curtains cost 1 million and that dust pans and brooms donāt come with the house. You could literally smell new items in that house. New curtains, new utensils, new carpet, new paint, and even new perfumes from neighbors. Everything felt so raw, even the air.
I sat down in my two-seater while I tried reaching my friends and catch them with that bombastic phrase, āNaishi Coral Bellsā, boasting how I managed to move to my own house. Mwanaume ni Keja, isnāt it?
I tried making random calls before being hit with āSorry, you do not have sufficient airtimeā¦press 1 to redeem bongaā¦ā kwani I donāt have airtime? Bills were coming in from all corners. Come on man, I just paid 25k to Joansie and paid a whole 500 shillings to this Kenya Power for a simple thing like lighting my house, imagine, just a bedsitter.
I was already getting broke and had not done shopping in that house. Thank God I had scooped some sugar and āstolenā one packet of mumās flour. I had saved about 60k for moving purposes, but now it proved inadequate.
I eventually managed to assemble that one thing, the bed, and put all my clothes on it.
You can imagine that night when I wanted to sleep, I was like, āSI MNISONGEE WADAU NIDOZā, thatās me to my unfolded clothes! That is how living alone life started. How Iāll maneuver throughout the year, I donāt know. New YEAR NEW GOALS, NEW RESOLUTIONS!
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