R1m in donations for KZN woman who lost farming business in floods

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A KwaZulu-Natal woman has received R1m in donations to revive the farming business she lost during the province's devastating floods.

This intervention is through the department of social development who canvassed the MTN Foundation to help Welile Gumede, 30, who founded Azowel Projects using her daughter's social relief grant.The devastation which was left at Gumede's farming business after the floods in KwaZulu-Natal earlier this year.The chemical engineering graduate recounted the challenges she faced to secure a job, which saw her exploring the idea of starting a farming business.

With the help of Google she learnt it would cost R175 to register through the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission“I took my social grant money to register. In that I started getting people who wanted me to register for them,” said Gumede.Some of the produce from Welile Gumede's thriving farm business which was destroyed in the April floods.

“All this happened out of an idea borne out of frustration, which has ended up solving problems for many others,” said Gumede.

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Uhmmm...the pic says R500k....?

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