Uganda's refugee women turned entrepreneurs
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Stella, Dawa and Salome arrived at the Bidi Bidi refugee camp in north-western Uganda with little more than the clothes they were wearing.
Now, all three are entrepreneurs and businesswomen, running thriving businesses and earning enough money to clothe, feed and send their children to school.
Can their stories help development agencies and governments deliver support to those most in need?
(Picture: Salome, picking crops in a field in Uganda. Copyright: Village Enterprise)
Presented and produced by Sam Fenwick
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Business Daily from the BBC World Service, you'll hear from three women who've set up |
| 0:08.4 | businesses in the most challenging circumstances. |
| 0:12.0 | When I look back, I really see this great change than when I came from my country. |
| 0:18.2 | I really have nothing, but at least with a small business I have right now, |
| 0:23.1 | I am seeing change. |
| 0:24.4 | Through growing their businesses, all three women have lifted their families out of extreme poverty. |
| 0:30.4 | The business which I am doing is how to rule. |
| 0:34.4 | Food is there. I'm having the food for my family. |
| 0:37.3 | The standard of living of my children |
| 0:39.5 | is really very changed. They are healthy and they are bright in school. I'm able to buy |
| 0:47.3 | school uniforms for my children. I'm able to support them with even sandals or school schools. |
| 0:54.1 | This is what I have seen that it has been very great in my family. |
| 0:58.1 | And now they're trying to help others do the same. |
| 1:01.1 | We don't stop where we are. |
| 1:03.1 | We shouldn't really be example to others |
| 1:05.8 | so that even though one is not educated, |
| 1:09.8 | a one could have a future that even through agriculture can lead their life. |
| 1:15.8 | I'm Sam Fenwick, and today I'm finding out how they did it, |
| 1:19.4 | and whether their stories could help development agencies and governments |
| 1:23.3 | deliver support to those most in need. |
| 1:38.1 | Thank you. deliver support to those most in need. This is the Okubani market in the Yumbay district of northern Uganda |
| 1:43.1 | within the Biddi-iddy Refugee settlement. |
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