A former Lusaka maid who runs a roadside business selling fritters has had her fortune changed.
Diamond Media has had an upclose with 39-year-old Patricia Mulenga who started with a K100, which would later lead to increased demand of her products that now include hot beverages in a makeshift takeaway outside the residence of her relative on Chalata Road in Woodlands Township.
The single mother of one child says she taught herself to make fritters which led her to quit a housekeeping job in 2018.
She recounts how she took the risk from a five (5) kilogramme packet of flour and five years later she has become an employer of two workers.
Motorists who are mostly the working class alongside children on school-runs, frequent the place for the fritters for breakfast that costs K5 each.
However, an enthusiastic Ms. Mulenga bemoans the continued increase in the prices of essential ingredients such as sugar, flour and cooking oil.
In her message ahead of March 8 International Women’s Day, the entrepreneur has encouraged young women to be industrious and desist from being choosy on one’s source of livelihood.
By Tito Kalama
