Flowers and Wedding Decoration Business – Enabled by Solar Electricity and WIFI Access to Internet
Mrs. Julia Elago, Oniipa
Artificial flowers for decorations to weddings made by Mrs. Julia Elago. The solar power electricity at the house enables the use of hot melt glue gun enabling increased production. These beautiful products are marketed via social media using the locally available shared WIFI connectivity to Internet. Electricity and WIFI connectivity improved the economic resilience of the pilot participants during the Covid-19 lockdown.
“The energy supplied has contributed a lot to my small lucrative business of decorating wedding flowers, buckets, and graduation flowers by supplying power to my hot melt glue gun.
Decorated umbrellas for weddings produced by Mrs. Julia Elago. — The small businesses in the pilot site were initiated and expanded independently by the people living in the houses that got electricity and connectivity in the Fusion Grid research project.
How did this assist or benefit me? Well it has enabled me to produce a lot of products and of quality within a short period as there’s no need of melting glues with candles which might consume much time. Another thing is that I make use of Wi-Fi to market and advertise my products, in this way I earn something for myself especially during this period of pandemic existence.”
