Earning a living from fixing bicycles for 34 years
Submitted by Editorial team on
High rates of unemployment and famine in 1990s in the eastern part of Uganda forced Hussein shift from farming to fixing bicycles for a living at a young age. The 65 year old still operates bicycles and is now a famous bicycle engineer in Iganga town,
“When I got done with Arabic certificate at the age of 15 I had no hope of going for further studies so I had to find ways of surviving. During that time most people were jobless and cotton which was major cash crop by then had lost value”, says Hussein.
- Read more about Earning a living from fixing bicycles for 34 years
- Log in to post comments
- Comments
- 723 reads