Prime Highlights-
- SPBD support helps women led small businesses grow steadier household incomes.
- Fulori Tagavira funds her children’s tertiary education through catering business earnings.
Key Facts-
- Fulori Tagavira’s catering business earns more than $200 a day.
- Laisa Katarina expands into frozen produce sales and poultry farming.
Background-
Women running small businesses across Pacific communities say their incomes have grown steadier, and many name South Pacific Business Development (SPBD) as the reason.
Women in catering, baking, fruit juice sales, and poultry farming say small-business loans have let them grow their operations and bring in more money for their households.
Fulori Tagavira runs a catering business and is 64 years old. She says SPBD changed her business and gave her the confidence to chase her goals. Before she found SPBD, life was hard, she says.
Once she learned about the organisation, she was able to start her catering business. She says SPBD gave her a lot of support. Her catering business now earns more than $200 a day. That income has covered her children’s tertiary education, paid for entirely on her own. At 64, Tagavira says she is still working hard and running her business well.
Laisa Katarina runs a fruit juice business. She has grown her business by adding frozen produce sales and poultry farming. She says SPBD gave her the confidence to try these new ventures. She adds that SPBD made it easier for women like her to grow their businesses.
SPBD says supporting women business owners remains a key part of its work to build stronger communities. The organisation says small businesses give families steadier incomes and more financial independence. SPBD says it will keep supporting women entrepreneurs going forward.
