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Hawkers on the streets #4

Open beth-ife opened 4 years ago

beth-ife commented 4 years ago

Last December, I found myself on Lagos mainland for the first time in a while and almost as though my eyes were open for the first time, I started wondering how much profit hawkers actually make. I simply couldn't marry the level of hard work with the apparent low profit. It didn't make sense. Why work so hard under the sun/rain and make barely enough at the end of the day? What if there was a way for hawkers to work in a decent way?

Proposed Solution

Government builds Low Profit Stores in as many LGAs as possible and hires people who already work as hawkers

ooade commented 4 years ago

I don't think it'll be enough but it could work. Let's not also forget that some of these hawkers have guardians with stores around. They send them out to the streets to get more customers.

beth-ife commented 4 years ago

I don't think it'll be enough but it could work. Let's not also forget that some of these hawkers have guardians with stores around. They send them out to the streets to get more customers.

Hmmm... so what would you propose?

ooade commented 4 years ago

The main thing I see here is to identify the basic need of a hawker and provide an alternative means of survival for them. I know it doesn't make a lot of sense really. Some of the reasons could be:

Sending their children to school.
Feeding themselves daily (More reason we have some children and teenagers on the street too). A lot (subjective) of them ain't staying with their biological parents.
Pay house rent. And, so on...

Most of these could be solved by providing several jobs (which I don't currently have much context in) that could help them with most of these issues.