The hardship faced by different people around the world affects their thinking. But some still design ways of working out of poverty. Poverty causes hardship, and is a global problem. For it is said that think globally and act locally”, start solving global problem by starting from your locality.
As far as, any human that experience hardship is concern, he or she must have come across his or her own opportunity to break out of hardship. The only limiting factor is ignorance. Opportunity don’t have smell, taste, color, sound, it doesn’t carry a big sign on his head and say to you” I am your opportunity”, it doesn’t knock on your door. Some are waiting to have millions before starting their own business. To hold onto your opportunity is courage and sacrifice.
Amaka, a woman from the Eastern part of Nigeria, who has a big supermarket in Otuoke Community, Ogbia Local Government, Bayelsa State. Shared her experience on how she moved out of hardship. She lived with her Uncle in the North when she was 20yrs.The desire to have her own business grow rapidly in her mind, and this thought affected her daily live. Everything about her point towards that coordinate (direction).After working for her Uncle, she will use her spare time to go work for the Northerners in their farms such as clearing and planting. The money they pay her is small but she never used it for food or clothing rather she saved it. As time goes on she saved up to Ten Thousand naira (10,000) and appreciated her uncle with Two Thousand naira (2,000) for the time or opportunity he gave to her, and he was happy for her generosity. With that gratitude she bought more of his support to start her business with the remaining money (Eight thousand naira).
Every day after working for her uncle, she will use her free time to go supply nylon materials and selling other goods as well. She sacrificed her amount of food consumption even when she was hungry and her mind was not in clothes or materials things.
After some years of running this business in the Northern region, she decides to move to the south (Bayelsa state, which she termed the land of business opportunity) where she set up small provision store business.
She said money is a seed that germinates and grow with time if properly handle. Today this woman is happily married with two beautiful kids. She is contented with what she have today, 100,000 naira is not her problem, she has bought several plots of land and built some houses.
This is not the richest man of Nigeria or Africa story but a business woman in the locality that is okay with her living and she is not a poor woman.
The most interesting sentence she said was that “your opportunity can be that small money in your hand, start up something with it, it’s a seed and it will surely grow, just be courageous, focus and be thoughtful of what you will achieve from your sacrifices.
