“My mother was a hairdresser and she is the one who showed me how to braid, that’s how I got interested in hairdressing.” At just nine years old, Joyce Ozua was already learning how to braid hair by observing how her mother styled hair working as a hairdresser back in Congo. Now in her mid-twenties, […]
“It is very unusual to see ladies working in motor vehicle mechanics and I really want to encourage more to do so that’s why I applied for the training”. At just twenty-two years old Apiya Amina already describes her decision to acquire skills in motor vehicle mechanics as an example of women’s ability to take […]
Among the 3,050 entrepreneurs recently selected for the latest cycle of the Tony Elumelu entrepreneurship programme is Peter Diing Manyang, the Executive Director of a small self-help group of some twenty two refugees from Kakuma refugee camp, which has been lending small amounts of money to start-ups and small business in the camp. The self-help […]
Back home in Yei South Sudan Hakim Samuel moved people and goods from one place to another on his motorcycle, a service commonly known across countries in East Africa as boda-boda, to earn some money to meet the needs of his family of nine. His wife and their children now aged nine, six and four […]
“One day while I was working, I felt a sharp pain in my right cheek which started swelling from the inside and grew outwards overtime until half of my face was infected”, recalls Mwabu Lukalanga a 51 year old refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo who successfully underwent surgery to remove an ameloblastoma he […]