Mombasa mum turns hobby into lucrative Bonsai venture

Pratti Shah tends to one of her bonsie tries which is at least five years old outside her home at Kizingo where she runs her business. Pratti supplies most of her bonsie trees to major offices which are used as decorations. [PHOTO BY GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD].

MOMBASA: Keen to demystify the notion that housewives cannot engage in money making ventures, Prachi Shah is making news in Kenya’s coast for cultivating, exhibiting and selling Bonsai plants.

Bonsai is a Japanese tradition of growing miniature trees in pots for ornamental purposes.