“If you have business and you have your own money you don’t suffer in your life. I can take my children to school, buy medicine when they are sick. I don’t depend entirely on my husband. I am even saving money.”
These are the words of Ayilo, a woman entrepreneur in the Kiryandongo District in Western Uganda. Her story reveals the inequality experienced by rural women in Uganda - unequal access to finance, land, markets and negotiating prices for their produce. But it also shows there is a way out of this trap.
“I started by growing maize but everyone around was also growing maize.
