Backstory
Her name is Hellen Akinyi. She comes from Kisumu and is married and has two children. She is a merchant. This business started in 2020 during the time of Covid-19. The business was meant to help those who were very hungry and could not afford staple food such as cereals. She started this business selling cereals door to door. She got encouragement from her neighbors who gave her mutual support together with her husband to start this kind of business. So her husband supported her with the idea of renting a place and continuing with the business. People could bring some of the products for her to sell for them and at the end of the day, she gets the dividend. Currently, she is happy doing this project because it is the source of her living and she supports her family with its returns. The biggest problem she is facing in her business is the rate of inflation in the country, meaning that she cannot purchase these products at the normal prices she used to because the distributors, that is the farmers, have increased the purchase price.