Her work is then sold to the international market through an e-commerce platform called Shop Soko. To raise seed capital, the founders of Shop Soko took part in a number of competitions that helped them get funding for Soko. Marilyn Otieno, the finance director at Shop Soko says it was not hard to get recruits for the start-up as they had an incentive. According to Ms Rachiedo, it has taken a number of loans to get to where she is plus the equipment she has. “I took a loan of Sh40,000 to buy few machines then I took another loan of Sh20,000 to buy phones.

Source: Standard Digital April 11, 2017 05:48 UTC