Joseph Yoana Msendekwa (Motor Bike Transport Business)

Joseph Yoana Msendekwa a father of two was a part time carpenter and was running a kiosk before he undertook entrepreneurship training at the One Stop in 2009. The training enabled him to learn business skills, book keeping, make savings, improving client relations, time keeping and adding value to their products and services. Savings from the kiosk, his construction work and funds borrowed from the family enabled him to purchase 2 motor bikes to start a transportation business (popularly known as Boda Boda). Joseph makes about 16,000 TZsh (10US$) a day from his transport business and has a savings of about 700.000 TZsh (appx.500US$) which he intends to invest in agriculture. He also has employed one additional person for the motor bike. He provides a needed service for the community in regards to transportation.  Before he bought his motor bikes and set up the kiosk the community had to walk about 3 kilometers to the main road to buy airtime and other essential or even to take transportation to the city centre.