“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 […]
More pupils joined the anti-drugs club at E-Way Academy pushing up the latest attendance to over 20 of the total 230 pupils at the academy. The number of pupils joining has gradually gone up since the club formed in May 2018, and is set to increase further as efforts under the Zambia programme of Action […]