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STRENGTHENING THE POOR 45

I met a friend whom I knew hawked packaged water in traffic, he now runs a big business. I knew him when he was selling those package of water (aka pure water) and he was ridiculed for it. I gave him accommodation then because he was putting up in a church before we met. He is now doing very well financially. I also knew many people who refused to began from that point where he began and till today they haven't begun anything because they are afraid what people would say when they see them beginning from the lowest point in life. Pride and the fear of what people would say is the reason so many are still living in abject poverty today. They are afraid of the ridicule they might get if they decide to hawk in the market, traffic or streets etc. as long as you can't begin small, you cannot begin at all. To train the African child to be wealthy, trained him not to be ashamed of starting from the lowest point in life while keeping his vision on the sky. God honors those who h

STRENGTHENING THE POOR 44

After receiving lectures on how to raise funds for his business ideas, he now wanted to practicalize it, and then he discovered that life application is always different from theory. His friend said, forget that lecture, you can't raise fund for this ideas by selling your business ideas and units to people as per the lectures, how would you gather the people? Who would listen to you? He tried discouraging him, but he wouldn't allow anything discourage him. He thought of how difficult it is for him to raise money from family members, so he decided to organize a launch party. He is going to launch the business he hasn't started. He told the best catering company whom he wanted they serve that he doesn't have money for their service, but that he'll bring important men to the occasion which would mean more customers for them, so the company agreed to serve as long as it would offer them the opportunity to meet with some elites of the society for a very low fee which w

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Many years ago, when pipeline began the leak, people started rushing to fetch the diesel, gas, fuel and kerosene that flows at various timeframes. while the traffic was channelled towards that place, a man decided to sell gallons. there was sudden need for gallons and this man made it available. He sold it far higher than the market price and because he had set up his business on the road that led to the place where the pipeline was leaking, people bought gallons without minding the costs, after all, they are going to fetch oils that costs so much for free. some people even paid more just to secure all of the gallons. the price of oils (gas, fuel, kerosene and diesel) became came down because everyone within that environ have gone to fetch themselves but the cost of gallons never came down until the government came and sealed the leaking pipeline. The African child must be trained to see that opportunity is not in the cause of the traffic, but in what people need when heading towar

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Two young men hawk bread to travelers. One day, one of them noticed that travelers need more than bread, that they sometimes come down from their buses to buy from the closest shops and because the buses don't always wait for that to happen, they don't buy as many things they wanted, so he went and have a wheel shop constructed for him where everything he could believe travelers would need would contain. he wheels the shop to them, so they could from the window of the buses buy anything they wanted. By this, he could sell more, and he operates a shopping system where he doesn't need to pay for a stand to build a shop on. his selling mate stuck to that traditional way of selling while many others started copying this young man and replicating similar ideas  in their various locations. Mr Strive Masiyiiwa saw a mobile money system run by Safaricom in Kenya and copied and reintroduce it as  a very successful mobile money called Ecocash in Zimbabwe. When you see a working