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Got a business in Sierra Leone? If so you may have encountered this problem at one time or the other. I went to a women empowerment meeting sometime ago – organised by Afford SL, UNICEF and the Cheri Blair Foundation – and the aim of the meeting was to discover the main obstacles facing business women in Sierra Leone.

For me, to realize that I wasn’t alone in some of the problems I was facing was enlightening as well as encouraging in many ways.

Some of the problems discussed included lack of government help, high rental rates, lack of good roads, lack of affordable capital and a few more. I’m sure each business type may face its own specific problems.

For instance, there are entrepreneurs who have serious and in-demand products which are doing well locally. Now some of these products, will do even better when exported. However, to export, all products must meet international standards.

Now these standards have to be implemented in individual countries and the framework for implementing can be quite slow here in Sierra Leone. Thus, you may have good exportable product but until it’s gone through & passed rigorous international standards, you’re stuck with marketing it only in Sierra Leone.

The #1 Problem

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I’ve had some friends ask me this so I thought, I’ll put together a post for those of you wishing to come

back home for good.

Now before I go on, in view of the dire health system here, I’ll advice anyone with chronic or serious illness which demands frequent hospital visits to stay where you are if you’re being looked after well. On the other hand if you have to come, you’ll need to find which hospitals and doctors you need to see here and perhaps arrange for your necessary medication to be sent to you from abroad. All is not lost!

Now let’s get into the 5 things you need stuff…
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