 My name is Elizabeth Christopaswai. I'm the founder of Aikem Glitters Company Limited located in the Reslamp Tanzania. Aikem Glitters deals with the integrated poultry business and it has a value chain of animal feed production, kuroila parent stock farms, hatchery and rural development. When I started, everybody thought I was crazy because I had security and a job and people did not understand why I was resigning. And I lost a lot of friends. I lost friends, I lost my marriage because my husband did not believe me. The project was doing very well. Since 2020 we've been having a lot of challenges. On the start of COVID-19 we had our director of production on leave in Cameroon and he was locked down in Cameroon and he could not come back. We were supposed to bring in parents' stock from India and they were locked down all over so flights were not coming in and we had paid since June last year to date we've not been able to bring in full capacity. We were producing 256,000 chickens a week but at the moment the hatchery is running at 30%. We have about 10 incubators empty and the reason for them being empty is because we don't have supply of hatching eggs from our farms. The new investment is a loan investment and when COVID strike our engineers from China could not arrive on time. The project time was to be four months but now it has taken one and a half years and between that time we were also supposed to start paying the loan that we had taken. So with a short fall of revenue from the pot reproduction and the hatchery and rural development that means we got into problems with the funder. It was very important for me to think of the contingency plan for my company because I did not want to let it go. I requested a loan from the Reslam Commercial Bank a small loan so that I could sustain the revenue drop stress and then I needed to speak to my farmers so I invested in the call center and ambulatory mobile services. And then the second thing that I did I called my staff members on a daily basis. We had a morning session. I would tell them to tell me everything they worry about COVID. So I was literally mentoring my staff not to be afraid. I had assured them that everything is going to be okay but then I did not know how. So when I go back home that comes back to me. It's very difficult for a woman to be able to compete. In Tanzania I'm the largest producer as a woman so I have a lot of negative receptive comments from men. Sometimes our competitors as well put some challenges against women on businesses especially when they are taking as a threat to their businesses. I think as a woman in Tanzania I get a lot of support from Ministry of Livestock and I also want to commend the men that I'm working with who are very helpful to me without requesting for any payback but I think a woman just need to be aware of themselves and stand to what they believe in.