From Street Vendor to Successful Entrepreneur
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WHEN SHE WAS STILL IN elementary school, Evelyn Wagstaff pushed a small kariton from Divisoria, filled with fruits and vegetables for sale. This Tondo native still sells vegetables today but as a successful entrepreneur, with business and properties in Hong Kong, London and Manila. Besides looking after her Little Divisoria sari-sari store in the middle of Hong Kong’s business district, Wagstaff also owns a door-to-door delivery service and a remittance shop.
Growing up in Jose Abad Santos, Tondo, she was already working at age seven in a factory owned by a relative. Her parents were separated; her mother had cancer so she and her siblings had to work. “My employer bought old houses and then fully renovated these before selling them. So after two years in Hong Kong, I was sent to New Zealand to oversee the renovation of four mansions he had just bought,” she says. “New Zealand is beautiful […]
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