Once you find a business that works for you and establish there is a huge market for your products or services and you cannot adequately cover it by yourself, tell other interested people about it. That is called opportunity sharing. Like our Pioneer Parents (your grandparents) shared tools amongst themselves to avoid spending money they did not have, you can also share necessary information, tips and support to each other so that no one is left behind. “Itininanagira nyeki” expounded translation: Animals graze together without ever worrying of the grass running out on any of them.
There is strength in numbers. The success of your neighbor does not in any way dim your success. Infact, it is just the opposite. It may feel nice to be the only tycoon in your neighborhood. That may be good for your ego but nothing else. First off, if thieves were to target your community, your home is where they strike first. When you are the only person with a car in the area, you will be approached for everything that requires automobile services, like rushing a sick person to the hospital in the middle of the night. During wedding planning, your car will be assigned to carry the wedding couple before they even consult you. You will be the “Guest of Honor” more like the “Guest with Most Money” for every project or function that needs fundraising. You will be the person whom everybody borrows money from. You can refuse, right? It is near impossible to refuse any of these requests because these are your neighbors and you have to continue living amongst them.
I hope by now you see why being the only tycoon amongst needy people is not as glamorous as you thought. That is why you want everybody to be economically independent. You want all your fellow young people to have something to do with their time so they do not come hanging out at your business playing draft all day long. You do not want them asking you for credit or borrowing money from you. When everybody is busy doing something constructive, and everybody is financially independent, you maintain healthy interactions that are founded on mutual respect. When everybody has an income, the local economy grows because everybody is consuming goods and services and they can afford to pay for them. It is called buying power.
That is why you want all your friends, relatives, former classmates and neighbors to have some income generating venture, however small. Those are the paying customers you need to grow your own business. Support them any way you can because their success is directly linked to your success.
Get to work and prove you are worthy to carry the torch your grandparents lit in the mid 1960s when they broke ground in OlKalou and watered the land with their blood, sweat and tears for decades.
