 When you have to sell in the streets to pay school fees You wake up at five to go deliver bread that you cooked at night in the wooden oven outside. Okay, then you know what is the poverty and you pay school with that, okay, and growing in this kind of family Everything everybody tells you don't dream But you know what? When you face it then you find the solution Then you think then you say, okay, if I cannot have here. I cannot have here. You know what I can have it here What is that one thing that kept you moving that you decided not to stop? You know what is fancy funny is those guys The other one was keeping me doing it because I have a career. I can't go back I've been a child director. I can go back to work, but what about them? It's so difficult for them to get a job today So for me When I'm tired, I just remember that I have 12 people. They have no choice than to work here So I keep on going to do today I am here to meet a strong amazing African woman who is actually helping to make a change in Congo like I said help me change that narrative and I cannot do everything by myself and that is why I am here today You know what you need to do for me like this video subscribe and be part of this awesome family and Stay tuned. Yeah in Congo. They don't even have beer, you know, all they drink is water and all their water I don't even know what is going on. Every water has a foreign name Please if you have Congo is watching this video. I really want to ask a question Why is it that everything in Congo has a foreign name even water to drink? We need to decolonize that mindset. Thank you But come with me. I hope she's not using An European name in here otherwise. I won't do the video Good morning. Do you know that you are actually one of the people that really put in Congo on the map? Okay Because I got to Congo and everyone is telling me you need to find money to take Congo and Let me hear It's a pleasure meeting you. Thank you. There's only one question I want to ask you money take What does money take mean? This is funny because the money take means Manioc technology means all the technology around cassava No, it's because it's I gave honor to my mom My mom is a PhD and she had been working on cassava for all her life Okay, and this is my way to say thank you mama for everything that you have done I only have one problem. That's I asked you this question I've been in Congo for like two weeks and any time I walk in the street of Congo I want to buy water because I love supporting local people But even buying water in Congo. It's written Canadian water. It's written American water to written like Switch something something water. So I thought like it's something in Congo for you to celebrate anything in European. Is it made in Congo or they just wanted to Yeah, maybe I think it's in the mindset and we are really trying hard to give to change that mindset For a long time in DRC I don't know for the other African country but in DRC people were taking thinking that When you consume something that is imported something that had been done by white men Then it's good. Whatever is done by us is not good And you know this is even why I created the company when I was 16 I had that crazy idea to say that okay everything that is important is beautiful This is what fancy people they have and rich people they have and what is local is not good This is what we have in the poor people and I was like, okay Why not we as Congolese we change that we do our own food our local things But in the good manner. Okay, so we can have also the good things so poor rich we have nice things So that was my idea in the beginning and this is also one of the reason why we have money tech It's hard because up to today we still have that bias Congolese consuming made in Congo jam. How do you consume it? They do they do yeah, and I just thought accepting that money tech Jam is here to stay We still have some problems because up to today. I still have some people saying yeah, it's local I don't trust the quality. This is why we made we make a very big accent on the quality on the quality of the service of the Product itself the cleanness of the the factory We we really want to show that we can be Congolese a freakin black and yes We are human like the white guys Do you do you export money to Congo? Not yet. Not yet. Yeah, do you plan to export it? I would like to but we have we have a lot of problems locally and that those problems doesn't depend on me So that so that the problem locally is the fact that Congolese don't want to accept that Money tech is made in Congo and they have to consume it The first year of money take a lot of people they thought that it was important Yeah, yeah Congolese People was thinking that it was important and it's my competition. We are only two women doing Jam in this country. Okay. They there are some others I'm but the big big we are only two and it's my competition who told me, you know what if you want to change that You better put some a freakin pattern on your product because people are keeping on thinking that it's important so We are here to stay that is real but we need to convince people put a camera on me man She's saying that money tech Congo is here to stay and I also want to cement that it's time for each and everyone out there If you are Congolese and watching this video, do me a favor Please like this video and then share this video because before I leave this country I want to make sure that every store needs to have the money tech Congo Jam It's time for us to change that mindset that everything that is made in Africa is not good If you don't start embracing yourself, no one will start embracing you I mean, we need to start changing that mindset. It's everywhere in Africa Go down shopping mall go down to the supermarket and go get yourself a Congolese jam. Thank you My name is Sivi Malukisa. I'm a Congolese and The owner the founder and the managing director for money tech Congo Money tech Congo, which is a Factory we make actually jam. We make sauce We make peanut butter and I'm a biotechnologist. I've been learning Especially how to transform Food and how to conserve it. So I was planning already to have this factory when in my young age I have also a a a a career in a HR field. Yeah, which is very funny because when you have a a Diploma in science and then boom Six years after I was the HR director So, yeah Today I'm representing also the Tony Loumelo foundation in DRC. Oh, wow. Yes. I'm the the head of the the foundation in DRC You're more like a powerhouse I wouldn't say that but I really want to know how it's all started. I mean Everybody's talking about money tech Congo right now, but definitely money tech Congo has a story Was it that easy starting up a money? It was very difficult in the personal level as a person as me myself as a person because I had to grow To you know to be entrepreneur is not that fancy as people think There is a lot of work that you do with yourself To grow and to become this entrepreneur Okay, it's kind of mission And there is also a lot of work that was to be done on the product itself You know, I'm a scientist I didn't I know how to create my product But in the marketing level how to build the brand I didn't know about about that Then The other problem is how to cope With the country with everything that's going on So it was a very long work to get here to make the story short The story starts with a young girl 16 In Kisangani, it's a town in the north of the country Where when you want to have a chicken to eat you have to To run after the chicken And you have the boys in the the neighborhood looking at you and laughing And then I was like no, no, no, no, this is not fair Why when I want my own food I have to go for the the the aunt It's not possible the other people they go to the fancy supermarkets They get the chicken that is imported. Why are we not doing our own chicken the same way? And I decided that this is what I will do and thanks god I have the one of the amazing mom in the earth my mom She's a PhD As I said earlier and she had been working in how to do to industrialize The process of producing cassava products all the cassava products and I was telling her mom one day. I will make money from your science And she will go like Because I was like talking nonsense and even today she's So proud when she comes here. She's so proud that I made it to our our dream of her and me and Then I had to face the truth the reality and the reality is when you are a black woman African not only any black African one Congolese one Coming from a I will say not the poor. I don't want to use that word, but this is actually was our life When you have to sell in the streets to pay School fees wake up at five to go deliver bread that you cooked at night in Wooden oven outside. Okay, then you know what is the poverty? growing in this kind of of family Everything everybody tells you don't dream Don't dream you cannot make it to a factory. You cannot Create and build a factory. You can at least have a job in the factory But you can't create one for yourself. You cannot because no one will give you money and Then you start facing that. Yeah, no one gives you money Your family they say you're crazy. I'm not going to throw my money Your friends, they are like you so they are not there. They don't have money anyway You go to the bank forget it woman black African and whatever Forget it. Then you look at the government and then you go and you say, okay Then you say I'm alone, but you know what? When you face it, then you find the solution Then you think then you say, okay, if I cannot have here. I cannot have here. You know what? I can have it here made extra efforts to learn Eventually I've been hired as a clerk in a small company I made a double effort to learn to get to the pa of the managing director Then I become the pa to one another managing director in a multinational Then he was so happy with me. He gave me everything I was like the other managing director in the company that makes lead led me to a child director Okay, then when you are a child director, you have the money And you have the knowledge because you had been working how to become an executive And this is what an entrepreneur is an executive. I've been learning I get a little money of my in a my career to start now the First phase that was the trial the trying phase of the company and from there things Came one by one one by one then we grow up to here. That is so inspiring Because I really want to know yeah starting this whole factory. This is your first ever factory This is the first ever factory and we are here for two months only and this is the first production of papaya gem Whoa In the factory I just want to know how long has money tech been in existence seven eight eight years But you've been here for two months. So it was a factory in the first place. I in my kitchen Adam The big factory the big money tech that everybody are Dreaming about and you know, there are people they just want to kill me. They say you have so much money. You have you have a big It was in my kitchen This is what happened when you love something and you put your mind in it and you put your heart in it And then you start building the brain and the brand is What people they buy they buy the idea they buy that conglis dream of Doing something that is so conglis that there's no Something outside our people are conglis. The knowledge is conglis. We Before we put the product on the the the the market We spent An entire year for the scientific research even up to today We are keeping on doing scientific research about how to improve the brands To improve the product. So we this is what we sell The local knowledge made simple and delicious and people they buy it Because we are true. We are not lying. We are not faking it. This is what we are And this is what we sell How does it feel like? I mean where you are right now. How does it make you feel? Crying I came from far I know we still have a long way to go But we really came from far We had only one pot when we we are inside. I will tell you we start with one pot one ridiculous pot to cook our jam But today we have big steel Stain still stainless stainless steel. We have big stainless steel. We have even copper pots For our jam and good quality copper pots for our jam. We have so many Gas Yes, and we have today we have 13 people working here So we came from far. I've seen that you're I've seen only one man working here, which means you're still empowering There there are we have four four five five five but the women are more than the women. Yes, women are more Empowering more women Yes You know when I want you to take me around and I'll ask you my next questions. Okay. Thank you Here we do the papaya we clean them Okay, we clean them up then we remove all the dust and the dirtiness and everything Then we bring it to this machine. Okay to grind it Okay, then from here we are going to make the jam and here this is our table. Oh, okay our table for Labeling labeling. So we do the label Here, that's amazing. You know I've seen the cylinders that you're talking about and all of that that big cylinder actually it's for the roasting of peanuts. Oh roasting of peanuts And this is where we cook our jam We we use the copper pot Okay, yes, that's guaranteed the the taste and the the structure of the the jam I mean, how does it feel like being a Female entrepreneur in Africa? How does it feel like? It feels good because you know women in Africa are mainly very strong Okay, this we know the the black woman is just powerful and It's we don't have limits and being one of The tribe makes me proud and to say that in the powerful Group of my sisters. I'm one of them You know Which means which means that you definitely have a message for so many young female entrepreneurs that are watching us right now Yes, if you have something to tell them, what will it be? You are from a powerful Our sisters you are powerful. So don't be scared of deploying Open your your your imagination and you can do anything. You can do anything But you know some of them tells me that there are no opportunities in Africa. This is not true. There is opportunities everywhere There is opportunity everywhere. Look. Look. Look. This is an opportunity Okay, you can transform those grains into cosmetics You can transform those grains into a medicine for headache This is opportunity. There is opportunity everywhere in Africa The business of somebody can be your opportunity Because you can bring something to that person to resolve one problem that person have I cannot resolve everything. I have some problems in my business That can be resolved by another business so And you know what as long as one people one person create one business It means there is opportunity for 10 others To come to give again for them inside You know, I I have a problem, you know when I came in here I I felt like there is no collaboration among entrepreneurs in this country I mean people are not too open to others So how would they know that there is opportunity in something like this because they are not open? People today what we do Us who think that there is opportunity for people they we talk we go out there. We talk And for example when I'm doing my deliveries, I use another entrepreneurs company. I don't do deliveries myself To clean my My waist Is that yeah, okay My waist it's another entrepreneur. He's a young entrepreneur Cedric who comes with his company. They come they pick them up They go, uh, they make, um, um, you know those things that black that you cook with The charcoal the charcoal is making out of this You see we are entrepreneurs with entrepreneurs some of our fruits are Provided by entrepreneurs not only by the mama in the market, but I love the mama in the market Oh, you that's why you get your yes. That's so nice with me Oh, I spend time with them we and they are so strong and so resilient That did my bad days I go in the market. I sit in the floor with those women and they can tell you how strong they are They first thing that you cannot even imagine Then they are still there laughing Then you come back and you say, okay, my sister pardon stop doing so lazy Stand up and go there and fight again. You see so I love the mamas I I you know what I'm so emotional right now that I feel like asking you so many questions What is the plan for money taking the next five years? What is that? What is the goal the dream for the dream is to develop this And god willing we are going to take also the next Spot, you know, this is the one door. We have a neighbor I want to take the neighbor also to make money take bigger So this is my pray. This is what I wrote to god We said this is my order. I want the neighbor place You know what in five years when you come back. Yeah, you'll find there and you know, this one will be my office So I will take the neighbor there also You know what um for us to make this dream come true Do me a favor. Yeah Share this video. You see I I really want I wish we can start a sporting because I have people all over the world And I want to make sure like, you know, I'm just going to put your number. Yeah And it's by force, you know, my people it's by force. I don't beg them to support you It's by force for them to support you So make sure you get ready because they're all going to tell you that please wanted you to export to uk us And the rest so get ready just get ready. You know what you need to do for me It by force contact the numbers on your screen Buy in large quantity and when you're buying it Tell her that it's because of what am I so I have to do this. You know, this is why we're a family, right? I want to know at what age you do make your first jam nine years nine years Yes, how nine years because what happened? We didn't have money for gem. We were not poor, but we didn't have money and I told my mom I want gem also because I see to my friend's house Then she said you have to make it yourself She said get me the papayas and I will show you how to do it Then I went outside Climbed in the papaya tree I got the papayas and I brought and I told And we have a lemon Tree behind our our house. I went there. I took the lemon from our tree And she gave me sugar and then we made the gem since then I never buy gem Definitely there have been challenges Since you started this what what has been that major challenge that you faced equipment to acquire equipment You know those pot they are the best quality Yeah, one of the best quality Okay, but they are so expensive So even when I used to say leave me with my copper pot with some packaging And take everything come five years after you will find again another factor What is that wanting that kept you moving that you decided not to stop? You know what is fancy funny is those guys They are the one who's keeping me doing it Because I have a career I can go back. I've been a child director. I can go back to work But what about them? It's so difficult for them to get a job today So for me When I'm tired, I just remember that I have 12 people they have no choice than to work here So I keep on going This special Series we are going to name it after you All those two so it's gonna be sold special Hey, the special one special one. Yeah, if you are in Congo right now, let me show you where to get Manatek Wadamaya Jam It will be only something like five five four. Yeah, it will be five And we are going to sell it how you say to the most high price The most high giver You have to pay more money to get it. I'm gonna put her number right there If you have one thing to change about Africa, yeah, what will it be the mindset? Only that Let's come back to the mindset of the pride, you know, the proud Africans the one who were doing Fighting for their land the one who didn't want to go for slavery The one who fought so hard that they prefer to be killed or to kill themselves To get the freedom of the of thinking The mindset we are human and we can make this continent very big Okay, the mindset I want to say thank you so much for talking to me and I really appreciate your time. Thank you. Thank you for coming. Thank you