President of the Namaka Market Vendors Association, Mariana Divikoca says the biggest challenge for her and other women vendors is what they used to earn in a day is now earned in a week.
While speaking at the International Women's Day event at the Australian High Commission, Divikoca says the Namaka market was known as a tourist market and now it is no more.
The first ever woman president in the Association says she did not know what to do and started to wonder what will happen to her children, her family and her business after the first case of COVID-19 in Fiji.
Divikoca says one thing that she is grateful for is their new market that they now have thanks to the Australian government and partners and it motivates her to go and sell.
She says the training that she has got from the Markets for Change project has helped build her strength as a woman and now as a leader.
Divikoca says she is also grateful for the government’s small business loan that has really helped some of the vendors.
