Meet Sara - the star business person at a shelter-based program for orphaned and vulnerable children.

Sara’s clothes.

Lusaka, Zambia

toolkit After cultivating business sense by baking and selling scones growing up, 17-year-old Sara is now the star business person at a shelter-based program for orphaned and vulnerable children. Living with her brother at the shelter since 1997, their mother passed away in 2000 of tuberculosis.

When Sarah failed ninth grade, the shelter suggested she participate in the Street Business Toolkit. The process, she says, helped her define her goal of starting a business selling clothes she makes herself.

"Now I know my goals, I can do anything in business," she says.

Sara learned how to tie-dye last year and now sews and makes everything from traditional chilenges and kitchen sets. She sells dress suits for $20 and shirts for $7.

Sara earns 20-25 per cent profit per item and the rest is put toward tailoring facilities and materials. She has saved $50 that she keeps in a savings account with the intention of growing her business.

"Girls think the only business is prostitution so if they have the Street Business Toolkit they can know about business," she says.

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