The saying that education is the key to success may not be entirely true to a female graduate who was unemployed for thirteen years before she delved into the business of car wash.
Jacinta Okeke, a graduate of Pure and Industrial Chemistry from Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University narrated in tears her journey as unemployed graduate that pushed her become a commercial car washer.
Miss. Okeke who hails from Nnobi in Idemili South council area of Anambra State said that upon graduation and completion of her one-year national youth service to the fatherland, she worked as a teacher in a private school in the state while sending out her CV to companies and agencies but could not get a job.
She said she grew tired and frustrated and had to leave her teaching job where she taught all the junior and senior secondary classes and was paid a meagre salary.
According to her, her meagre salary could not foot her bills or take care of other responsibilities in her family as such she decided to take up the job to wash cars to make ends meet.
She recounted the difficulties she faced while trying to persuade customers to give her a trial in washing their cars as many believed that as a woman, she had no strong hands to do the job but had to overcome that through dedication to work.
On the days her male colleagues were absent at work provide good opportunity for her to leverage on in improving and proving herself to others.
While saying her education has placed her above others in her little car wash business, Miss. Okeke thanked God for the gift of life and good health and appealed to well-meaning individuals and government to help empower her to enable her start up soap making business and provide employment for others.
For contact and assistance, kindly call Jacinta Okeke on 0806 395 6503.
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