Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value from an activity has been the basis and source of living for people in the villages of Uganda for centuries. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include values other than simply economic ones.
An entrepreneur is an individual who creates and/or invests in one or more businesses, bearing most of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards. Since the onset of the Women Climate Entrepreneurship Training & Mentorship, the Women in CANVA Consult team have trained close to 200 women entrepreneurs in five training locations in Uganda and, as a result, CANVA has helped many women take a leap from one entrepreneurship stage to another.
As an organization, we at CANVA have decided not to judge our days by what we harvest but by the seeds we plant at the end of the day. In our recent training at Nyakasura , in the Fort-Portal area, we met what we define as an ideal entrepreneur who attended the training to catapult her enterprise to a higher level. There are 231 million women globally who are starting or already running their businesses and Ruth is among this group of gems as a motorcycle driver.
Ruth Nangila Munyole is a woman who knows her worth and is bursting with confidence to realize her potential. Every day I wake up, she said, I ask myself, how far I can go. I answer this question by facing my fears and doing the most I can so as to realize how far I can go. The goal to give her children a good life is what made her venture into a male-dominated business and take over as the only female motorcycle rider in the area. She is a woman who has decided not to follow and go where the path leads but rather to go where there is no path for women and leave a trail for a generation. We’ll want to come back later to see how things turned out.
