Namibia / Starts Her Own Business and Quits Job Search

For years Apollonia Jakundeni Ndjukuma criss-crossed the country hunting for employment opportunities, wherever she could.

After many years of searching her hopes of ever finding employment were starting to falter. However, when she looked at how much she had already sacrificed in order to land a job, she vowed to herself never to give up on her quest.

Instead of resigning herself to a life of misery and unemployment, Ndjukuma’s thoughts went into entrepreneurial overdrive. She realised that instead of looking for a job she should rather concentrate on acquiring a skill that would allow her to work for herself.

After undergoing training in needlework, Ndjukuma decided to establish her own business in 2009 at Grootfontein called Apollo Design and Tailoring. Now after only four years the business employs two full-time dressmakers, and churns out various fashionable clothing items, including traditional designs on order. Today, the 29-year old Ndjukuma is not only making a living from the business she started four years ago, but the thought of looking for employment has been erased from her mind permanently.

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via allAfrica.com: Namibia: From Desperate Job Hunter to Business Owner, Employer.