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My pets, my moneymakers: From Sh16k salary to big bucks

For Lucy Ndung’u, necessity was truly the mother of invention. Seventeen years ago, she was working for a non-governmental organisation where she was earning Sh16,000 a month for her market research assistant services.  

“At the time, my monthly budget was Sh25,000, making me a slave of credit to make ends meet,” she says.

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