Kaothar Ajani is a 16-year-old girl that went viral for catering for her siblings from the money she realises through the Tricycle business.
The story of Kaothar is one that provokes compassion and commendations. Women who were regarded solely as Home makers are now taking the driver's seats in areas of human endeavours formally reserved for men. Kaothar is a secondary school student of SS2, in Osun State, Gboyega Bakare, that went into an unusual trade of commercial tricycle riding, her preferred route was Total Market road in Apomu, in the Isokan local government area of Osun state because of the death of her father who had bought the tricycle on higher purchase about seven months ago and was only able to pay a little more than half of the total cost of N750,000 before he suddenly fell sick and died and so as the eldest child of the family with siblings much younger, she took up the responsibility of riding the tricycle to pay up her father's debt and own the tricycle eventually; She admitted it was very difficult at the beginning but overcome the challenge with the passage of time. Her widowed mother was not in support at first of her decision to take to riding but with Kaothar persistence, She gave in. In her words her father prepared her adequately for this task because he didn't raise her up like a girl, he got her involved in everything he did
When asked if her education wasn't affected by her trade in any way, her response was: "It does, but not very much, getting to focus on so many things at the same time could be confusing, getting home after school and rushing to do assignments in order to get on the road as early as possible to maximise the little time left before dusk was an issue earlier on. But I conquered that by making sure I do my assignments at school as quickly as they are given, since I can only ride the tricycle after school during the week and on weekends.
This young girl makes an average of N5000 between 3 and 7 pm on market days that fall on school days, adding that on ordinary days, she gets around N2000 after fuelling and on weekend market days she makes N10,000 on average. However, her greatest challenge on the job, according to her is putting commuters' loads up in the boot, another challenge is getting to navigate the routes and manoeuvre bad portions of the road
One good reason she is our crush is she has a future plan of becoming a nurse, so that she can help people heal. "So many people are going through very painful experiences without any help". So sh says.
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