WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PURE WATER HAWKERS

Just like this piece touched Becky M of Naijadivaexpress, it got to me and made me know what I never knew or understood before. Please, read the post below carefully and understand the message behind it.

Three Pure Water Sellers In Challenge Area of Ibadan were interviewed, and according To Them: Sometimes, It Takes About 6 Hours To Sell twenty Sachets Of Water Which Amounts To A Total Of N200 (1Dollar).

From The N200, The Profit Is Only About N40 As The Pure Water Sellers Have To Pay The Wholesalers Their Money Back As Well As Cover The Price For Ice Block Which Was Used To Cool The Water.

The Long And Short Of It Is That Some Of Them Make Only N40 In 6 Hours Of Hustling Under The Hot Sun, Risking Their Lives On Major Express Roads And Always At The Mercy Of The Environmental Protection Board Who Whip Them With Cane When Caught; Burst Their Water Sachets To The Ground And Fine Them N5,000.

As If That Isn't Bad Enough, When Passengers And Drivers Reach The Traffic Stops, They Prefer To Dash N100, N200 Or Even N500 To Beggars And Fake Sufferers Who Sometimes Make About N1,500 A Day Doing Nothing But Begging, Leaving Them Richer, Luckier And Safer Than The Pure Water Sellers Who Are Young Entrepreneurs Serving The Larger Community With Their Trade, And Trying To Make Ends Meet.

So When Next You Are At A Traffic Stop, Please:

1. Dash The Pure Water Seller Instead

2. Buy Pure Water To Patronize Them And If The Change Is (N10, Or Even N20, You Can Leave It With Them)

3. Say Something Nice To Them. Greet Them, Encourage Them.

4. Slow Down, Don't Knock Them Down.

5. Even If You Won't Buy The Pure Water, If They Ask You To Buy, Rather Than Ignoring Them And Facing Front As If They Are Not Humans, You Can Look At Them, Smile And Say "Thank You".

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This form of hustle is so real and should encourage you to take steps to do useful things for yourself, irrespective of how low the revenue generated might be. There'll always be a big break, a time when you go from earning little to earning a lot.