Empower a caregiver...Reduce Gender Based Violence

K.K is a mother of two who benefitted from the empowerment given at Olive Community Development Initiative. She is into selling of bead bags, shoes and kitchen utensils According to her, she will snap the things she sells, post it on her social media platforms and through that she gets customers who patronize and buy things from her. She was using her android phone for marketing and advertisement until it was stolen four years ago. After losing the phone, she lost all her customers and could not post on her social media platforms again in order to reach out to her old customers and as well get new ones. On getting the new phone, she was happy and excited; according to her, getting the phone is an advantage to her and a good thing; because her business will go back to the way it was. She will start projecting her business more, get in contact with her old customers and as well get new ones.

O.O is a fashion designer who could use android phone to boost and as well project her business. Get in contact with her customers, get new ones etc. according to her, she has been in fashion business for the past sixteen years but she doesn’t have an android phone that she can use in projecting herself. She remembered that she has lost a business worth millions of naira because she didn’t have an android phone. They said, there is no way they would be able to contact her and also, she may not get the styles given to her. Getting the phone, she was very excited; she said she believed with the phone, she will get much more contract that will boost her business.

A.B is a mother of two who also benefitted from the empowerment given at Olive Community Development Initiative. According to her, she has not taken pictures of herself for the past twenty years. Getting the phone and using it to snap made her happy and her self-esteem was boosted.