Contact Admin. Mary Bwalya, 38, of Kapiri Mposhi in Central Province is one such example of women who have chosen to be unique and exceptional in society. After the death of her husband in , Mrs Bwalya was left with almost nothing because her in-laws grabbed most of their property. Mrs Bwalya also taught her daughter, Gift Bwalya, who has since been a helping her to provide for household needs.
In , Mrs Bwalya was recognised by some women empowerment groups that helped her come to Lusaka to attend an empowerment conference. Amazingly, she excelled by coming out on top and was recognised as the most hard-working woman entrepreneur in Zambia enabling her to get some sponsorship. That did not only encourage her to work harder but to also go back to school. So aside from working hard to send her grade 12 daughter to school, she is also spending on her own personal development and will be sitting for her grade 12 examinations this year.
Her daughter Gift, who has become more professional at the job, balances between school and metalwork. Gift says she is blessed to have a hard-working mother who gets to have swellings sometimes on her hands due to excessive metal work just to send her to school. She has a dream of becoming a technical engineer after school and is appealing to all girls who come from poor families not to be involved in illicit activities. Gift would have easily started sleeping around with men, but she instead chose to work hard with her mother to make their tomorrow brighter.
Their story is touching because just by looking at how their skin looks, one is able to tell how difficult the work they do is and also the fact that it is done in the sun. What makes Mrs Bwalya a successful and inspirational woman is not the amount of money she is able to earn from her business, but that even after being widowed and being left with nothing, she stood up and started building herself not by lobbying for sponsorship from Government but by using the tools her husband left behind.
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