By Elene Rich | Project Leader
Empowering women to participate fully in economic life across all sectors is essential to build stronger economies, achieve internationally agreed goals for development and sustainability, and improve the quality of life for women, men, families and communities. unwomen.org
Update on Mrs. Ogeroju's small business in Ibadan, Oyo State:
Mrs. Ogeroju is a 45-year-old HIV-positive widow who is a part of the DA Small Business Scheme in Ibadan, Oyo State. She has attended workshops to expand her business skills throughout 2016 and 2017 to date, and has expanded her tailoring business to include selling retail items such as car and motorbike spare parts, oil and other car accessories. The workshops taught her to look at her location and analyse which projects/business opportunities could be relevant to potential clients in her area. As her shop is situated on a main road in a densely populated area of Ibadan she decided to try supplying parts/consumable items to the motorbike and car taxis surrounding her and it has been successful so far.
As the workshops teach the business owners about budgeting and saving for expansion, she had generated the capital to expand her business without needing any external assistance. She is excited by the success of her first expansion and hopes to start expanding her product range further in the next few months.
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