Before Village Enterprise, Agnes was running a small business but was barely supporting her family of five kids. Her family’s needs came first and this left her little time to run a successful business that would support them all.
In the beginning, Agnes and her two other business owners started raising chickens but went out of business when disease wiped out all their chickens. It was a fatal blow to their business and they were left with nothing. However, this did not discourage them. They joined Village Enterprise’s microenterprise development program and today they are successfully running a retail grocery business that is now helping Agnes fulfill all of her family’s needs. She believes that her business became successful because “she worked hard and chose to place her business in a strategic location”, the market center. Today, Agnes can feed herself, her husband and all five of their kids 3 meals a day, every day.
Agnes’s says her favorite part of the Village Enterprise program is training. Through the program Agnes has learned how to plant new crops via S.M.A.R.T. and has been trained on basic business principles that leads to profits. Moreover, she has learned conservation practices and now helps by planting trees in her local area. Agnes says, “Village Enterprise is hope.”
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