With the onset of the cold season, Kibera woman has found a lucrative business opportunity in the rains. Lydia Butola, a 28-year-old mother of one, sells tea and coffee late in the evenings and sometimes during the day just as the rains begin.
Butola says she has been a casual job seeker until, one day, the rains pounded continuously locking her inside her rented single room. It is during that day that she explains gave birth to the business idea in her mind.
"I could not go to work because of the heavy rains. But I had to find some money because I had no one to depend on, and my only son looks up to me for his needs," Butola said.
The business minded lady says that she prepared coffee and filled her flask of eight glasses and hovered around Olympic market where she lives, trying to source for market to sell her little coffee. Fortunately, to her surprise her coffee sold out within half an hour. And this is how her coffee business began.
Today, Butola says she no longer goes around city estates looking for casual jobs but sits around her stall serving her customers. She hopes that a day will come when she will own a bigger stall then a restaurant.
Butola is just a representation of creative slum women who go to higher limits towards creating employment for themselves. She advises other unemployed slum dwellers to be creative to liberate themselves from the scourge of unemployment.