By Steve Govati
Today, if you ask Stella Chitukula, 26, about her life, she will definitely tell you this: "there is a thin line between struggles and success”.
According to her, life is enclosed in a phase "patience is vital".
Chitukula is a holder of diploma in Public health, obtained in 2022 at Malawi University of Business and Applied Science (MUBAS) continuing education center. She has been an executive member of a youth organization called Young Women's Agenda that is aiming at empowering youths and women economically since 2018.
According to Chitukula, her patience in executive position pave a way to heaven as she got motivated after tabling with some women tycoons.
"This helped me to get in touch with many women who are entrepreneurs, like Emmie Kamkweche, who owns a Fashion Shop and a Car Import Company", she said.
According to her, life changed afterwards as she begun figuring out ways in which she can be like Kamkweche.
“In 2019, I started importing goods from China at a very small scale, it was on and off due to the impact of Covid-19, she said.
Even in zero hope, she kept in her mind that there is a thin line between struggles and success. In 2022 January, with capital of $140 (at least MK120, 000.00) she began importing watches.
“I was importing every month which helped me to accumulate money up to $15 000 (at least MK20 million) by December 2022, she said.
She added that in 2022 alone she managed to buy digital printing machine worth $4 000 (at least MK5 million), a vehicle for transportation business worth $6 000 (at least MK8 million)”.
According to Chitukula, she have been facing challenges in business including lack of forex. This challenge made her to shift from importing to exporting such that she is doing every means possible to find ways to have products to be exported outside Malawi.
Today, Stella Chitukula is running a printing company, Walla City Printers and she is a member of National Small and medium enterprises (NASME).
