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Making a living pushing his smoking smokies cart through village lanes

Henry Mwenda, 32

I have been in different lines of employment and self-employment with the former being a stint in a slaughterhouse before moving on own to hawk a variety of fast moving goods like confectioneries at matatu termini in Nakuru town.

Along the process, a friend and I decided to combine ideas and we came up with a joint maize roasting business. We had to raise capital on a fifty-fifty basis and put the idea into practice.

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