How Mrs Ogunseye brought her business back!

Mrs Ogunseye sells fufu (an essential food in most of West Africa) in a small market, by the side of the road, in Ita-oshin Abeokuta. Three wraps of fufu go for 50 naira. She's been doing this for years and is really good at it.

Like so many women in the community, the livelihood of Mrs Ogunseye was eroded by the coronavirus. The little she had saved was used for food and the essentials needed to stay alive during the lockdown in Ogun State.

Just a few weeks back, she was stuck. But our team reached out to her and offered a hand. She went through our entrepreneurship & financial literacy class and was given a small loan of 10,000 naira ($28).

Using a part of the loan, Mrs Ogunseye walked to the farm in the villages and spoke with the farmers where she secured three bags of Cassava. She also contracted a mason from the town who made a processing store in front of her home, where she would process her three bags of Cassava into Fufu.

"These bags will sustain my business for three months", Mrs Ogunseye pronounced with excitement.

Mrs Ogunseye (holding the Cassava sack) and Odejobi (Sharing Life Africa team)

By her ingenuity & industriousness, her family is stable again with food on the table - morning, afternoon and night. We are only grateful to have guided her with our entrepreneurial class and importantly to have given her a small loan of 10,000 naira ($28).

To many, $28 dollars is money spent on a day’s outing but for Mrs Ogunseye and many women like her - it is the capital needed to unlock prosperity, education and the future of the family.