Young Woman Who Dropped Out of University Used Ghc135 to Start Catering Business
- Pumla Gobelo is another influential woman who used the Ghc135 child support grant to launch her own catering business
- Gobelo is the owner of Mbuks Catering Services and serves her Eastern Cape clients in Butterworth after dropping out of varsity
- The bubbly woman says she always wanted to own her mobile kitchen unit and eventually managed to buy it after 10 years
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Another local woman has decided to turn the low Ghc135 child support grant payment into a profitable business idea. Pumla Gobelo launched her small business, Mbuks Catering Services in the province of the Eastern Cape.
The young lady is a dropout from varsity but her situation didn’t limit her ability to become a successful businesswoman.
Gobelo says she started her business after leaving the Vaal University of Technology in Johannesburg and opted to look for a different source of income.
Source: UGC
Pumla Gobelo launched her business in Butterworth in 2011
The ambitious lady elaborates that she dropped out of her third year at varsity and says some people don’t believe she started with the Ghc135 grant. Her story is documented by Food for Mzansi and she said:
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“Some people don’t believe I started this business with Ghc135 from child support. I wanted to own a mobile kitchen but had no funds. 10 years later, boom I had funds to own one. I wake up every day and hustle, the feedback is always positive.”
Mbuks catering also headed online to post this influential story with her followers. As things stand, it seems the lady is serving traditional food from pap and meat to fast food items such as hot chips.
The post reads:
Light Esprado said:
“Mbuks wethu.”
YEN.com.gh earlier reported that Violet Awo Amoabeng, the beautiful daughter of Kofi Amoabeng, the well known Ghanaian business man who was the co-founder of UT bank shared her journey to owning an edible skin care product line on the KSM show.
In the video sighted by YEN.com.gh, Violet recounted that the idea to start a skincare line was birthed when she was living abroad and her lip cracking due to dry weather was regarded as a virus.
She got a recommendation from one of her friends to try using shea butter on her lips to help with the cracking and according to Awo, it worked like magic.
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