Original Story Published by: Dominic Kirui for The Epoch Times
Photo Source: Dominic Kirui/Special to The Epoch Times
(Above) Nariku Kuyo converses with her friends at the Naikarra market in Narok County, Kenya, on May 4, 2018..
LESHUTA, Kenya—The setting sun’s rays fall across the green vegetation cover brought forth by the rains after a four-year drought. Children are playing in a field near a corrugated iron structure.
Inside the structure, 60-year-old Naatana Karbolo is among a group of women learning basic literacy skills. They come to the class every afternoon after their house chores, and bring their children with them, leaving them to play outside as they attend their lessons.
Before Karbolo joined the adult education classes in July last year, the mother of six could not effectively run her business because she could neither read nor write. Now, her business is realizing profits.
Karbolo is a businesswoman at a local shopping center in Naikarra, a small town in Narok County, about 80 miles west of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. She sells maize, cooking fat, and cell phone airtime cards. Since taking the classes, she says her business has improved.
“I used to make losses since I would occasionally give out debts and depend on my memory to remember who I had given some items on credit to. Without seeing them, at times I would forget about it and it meant a loss in my business,” she told The Epoch Times.
But, like many of her classmates who are involved in business, she can now keep records of the debtors and record sales. This became possible only after the women finally received an opportunity to get an education.
