Adama transformed her business through training
- ellenarnison
- Jun 26
- 2 min read
Selling food products with less local competition made a difference
Adama Mansaray used to sell cooked rice as a restaurant or cookery type business - she didn’t know how to manage her money or her business.
Now, using what she learned on the Prosper programme, much has changed. From the road outside her house, she sells foods including cake, beans, bread, macaroni, chicken and fish. She knows how to allocate profit and start making savings, how much she can take for herself and how much to re-invest in her business.
During the Prosper training, she decided to focus on selling cakes and other food products that have less competition locally.
Now every day in the morning she goes to buy the exact amount of stock that she knows she can sell that day. This also makes her daily calculation of money easy as she knows the profit she will earn if she sells all her stock.
She is a member of both a savings bank and a different susu savings group. She uses her susu group for another business where she buys groundnuts in bulk to sell at a later time when the price increases.
She plans to use the money she has saved in the savings bank to cover her children’s school fees. She likes the savings bank because she has set her own individual savings target that she is working towards reaching.
She plans to continue to expand her business by building a roof to cover the area where she cooks and sells. She is also planning to start buying her flour and cake ingredients in bulk to reduce her overall costs and to save time by not having to buy them every day.
