For many years, Mama Vida was known as a talented seamstress, creating beautiful handmade designs with perfect sewing, however, a series of unfortunate events forced her to leave her stylish sewing behind and seek a life that was more faithful and loyal to her needs.
The emotional toll of experiencing multiple miscarriages, each one more heartbreaking than the last, led her to venture into the business of selling cassava flakes, popularly known as 'gari'.
The joy according to Mama Vida, she once found in sewing began to fade, and was instead replaced by a deep sense of pain and frustration.
In an interview with Victoria Kyei Baffour on GhanaWeb TV’s Everyday People, she explained that she had to quit her sewing job because she was suffering too much and needed to find something that would make life easier.
She stated that her childhood dream was to have a good educational life; however, that couldn’t happen, and as a result, she had to learn a trade, which was sewing.
“As for me, I wanted to have a good education but it couldn’t happen so I went to learn how to sew. I was a seamstress but at a point, I started having multiple miscarriages which gave me problems, so I quit and started with the gari business.”
Today, Mama Vida’s twenty-three-year-old gari business is thriving. She further advised women to be hardworking and able to take care of their children when their partners are no longer around.
Watch the full interview on GhanaWeb TV here:
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