By Diane Nkusi
By the financial help of Alibaba and Jack Ma, 15 people mostly young from different African countries, are going to compete for the award called “Africa’s business heroes prize competition 2022”
Kouatcha
Flavien Kouatcha Simo from Cameroon, at the age of 33, is now among the young people who have the opportunity to be called rich in the field of business of vegetable farming and fish farming (aquaponie).
As one of the young entrepreneurs who chased the idea of development from nothing, Kouatcha told umuringanews.com that he was raised by his grandmother for many years and taught him that his life will come from the crops that come from the soil.
Kouatcha says that the power to change his life is due to his grandmother, but the advantage he has is that he studied at university but he believes that everything is thanks to the one who raised him when he was young.
He said, “I agree that strength and recovery from poverty does not depend on a person’s birth, but the strength of the heart of the owner, a person should have confidence in him, let’s stop following the words of politicians and go to work regardless of those who discourage us.”
He went on to say how he met a sewing girl who exists only to get money, but at that time she sewed him a jacket 3 years ago but now everyone goes to that seamstress in Cameroon she is a great person.
He said, “When a person starts a business, he may face problems of poverty, I had a lack of money to hire someone to start my business, but it didn’t discourage me. Young friends, who have dreams, don’t be discouraged!”
Based on his experience, Kouatcha as an engineer confirms that he has not discovered anything new in the development of vegetable farming and fish farming because this has existed in the history of Egypt since ancient times.
He said, “What I did was that I just developed it using the technology of planting vegetables and breeding fish, one way helps the other to get the crops, but also there is a way to cool them so that the food reaches the customers without damage and in a very fast time.”
Nadia
Nadi Gamal El Din from Egypt became a mother at the age of 24 before finishing school, which was a good time for her to think about herself and start working as a person in charge of marketing.
In an interview with Umuringanews, Nadia said that in 2015, she founded Raphet Bally as a platform aimed at helping women in Egypt.
He said, “As someone who thinks that things can be better, I founded a website to help mothers get out of poverty and give them money to work, which has helped them a lot in their lives, physically and emotionally.”
Tesh
Tesh Mbaabu from Kenya, co-founder and director of Marketforce Technologies in his project was able to combine business with the so-called B2B business but he does it in order to compete with the wider market and employs about 200 thousand people.
