Lately I’ve had to make some difficult choices. They boil down to choosing between the lesser of two evils which is never fun. It’s too soon to see the results of my decisions, but it brought back a reminder of a tough choice I made that turned out to be one of the best things I ever did.
Back in the day – 2005 to be exact – I was just starting Girls Can’t WHAT? and needed a vendor to make my designs into t-shirts. I contacted a local woman whom I had worked with on other projects and we discussed the options. She spent many hours helping me tweak my image files into a workable format for printing. After a couple of months, we had about 10 designs ordered and ready to be heat-pressed. I got to work on the marketing and soon I was taking orders like crazy.
It was then I noticed I was spending an insane amount of time just filling orders and dealing with shipping operations. At that rate, I had no time to do the creative work I enjoyed and my new business was becoming a huge time suck. Fail!
Uon Mayom, a hard-working 35-year-old mother of two who lives in Phnom Penh city, where she makes a living selling cakes in front of a garment factory. Her husband contributes to the family’s income by driving a motorbike taxi. This is the time of year in Cambodia, the fish are in abundant supply and prices are especially low, so Uon is applying for this loan to buy a large amount of fish to turn into paste to sell to her customers.
Hanin is a young woman who is married with one child. She lives in Saffa Village south of Ramallah City. Hanin’s husband used to work in Israel in a pastry shop but three months ago they decided to start their own business since working in Israel depends on getting a work permit so it is not permanent work.
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