Days when students would wait to graduate and dream of getting white color jobs offering a six figure salary are gone.
Sharon Mwaniki, a student at Maseno University has embraced this realty and is able to overcome financial challenges by running a juice parlor at Nyawita market.
Sharon’s business trades in fresh juice production and also vending of fresh fruits ranging from mangoes, oranges, grapes, passion fruits among others.
The juice made at the parlor is served in a variety of flavors like, passion, pineapple, mango, beetroot, and avocado, also according to the client’s desire and choice.
Speaking to this writer, the proprietor of the business on Thursday evening said she learnt the art of fresh juice making from her elder siblings who practice the same business.
“I am motivated to provide my clients with fresh fruit juice which is healthy to our bodies,” she said.
According to Tom Odhiambo, a customer at the shop, he is able to witness the entire juice blending process and he can easily decide which variety of fruits should be used in making the juice.
Sharon said that she buys her fruits from Luanda town and looks forward to buying a bigger freezer for her profits.
This will enable cool her juice and also to store her fruits which she said were perishable if not well stored.
She continued to mention that balancing her studies and the lucrative business was not a walk in the park.
She said she wakes up early in the morning to prepare her juices.
“I have a friend who helps me run the business whenever I have a lesson to catch,” she said.
She urged her fellow students to look forward to being economically independent by involving themselves in upright activities that will earn them income regardless of how little it maybe.