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How I started my catering business with Sh5,000

Nancy Ng’ang’a, 20

After my attachment following a course on foods and beverages, I, like others before me, was all set for tarmacking in search of a job and demonstrate my worth but was challenged by my mother and a brother to start my own catering business (mother is a retired chef having worked with a number of hotels).

According to the reasoning, it would have been difficult to land a sustainable job in a short time given the limited vacancies available in the job market, with the possibility of ending up doing what I hadn’t trained for.

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