Joy Kayitesi
February 5th, 2010 Posted by admin
NAME: Joy Kayitesi
COUNTRY: Rwanda
BUSINESS: Honest General Enterprise Limited (import/export)
Joy, 47 years old, co-owns Honest General Enterprise Limited, an import/export company.
Joy’s business originally stared as a retail shop in 1991. Six years later, the shop grew to a whole sale enterprise. Then in 2001, the business became a fully functional import/export company.
The business distributes goods to several multi-national companies, including British American Tobacco, Colgate-Palmolive East Africa Limited, SARA LEE Household and body care Kenya Limited, which manufactures shoe polish and hair products. Over the next five years, Joy hopes to maximize her operations to meet her customers’ demands and increase her profits.
By attending the PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS training, Joy strongly believes that she will knowledge that will help her uplift her business and her entrepreneurial skills to greater heights. She is also eager to learn about becoming a more active public policy advocate. Joy says that she wants to be empowered about the different public policies that affect businesses, such as government structures, taxes, city, state and government rules governing business.
