“I always dreamt of owning my own business. Being under someone’s supervision has never appealed to me,” says John Ndirangu, a self-employed welder in Kayole. After completing a course in welding, he could not manage to get a stable job. For five years, he would do any odd job that he could find while relying on the few connections he had made to get welding jobs. “We all have to start from somewhere and for me it just happened to be at the very bottom,” he says. Soon, word spread around and he had an actual client list that enabled him to open his own shop...
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