Sandra is one of the few woman charting a brave new course in something many people would term as unconventional. She decided to make a name for herself early on in life by becoming a female mechanic and she has been doing quite well.
Growing up in a polygamous family in Benin City, her mother actively discouraged her from following her dreams, sometimes beating her when she would be busy working on an engine instead of doing her chores in the kitchen.
Speaking in an interview with Al Jazeera, Sandra said, “The constraints, the obstacles, the challenges that could have driven me back, they became my opportunity. The future looks bright.”
Her quest to create an impact with the work of her hands has driven her to create a network of female mechanics that is now spreading from city to city, and training former sex workers, orphans, and victims of trafficking delve into mechanics.
Sandra believes that women are better suited to high quality, technical work on motor vehicles.
“Our clients keep coming back – they prefer us because we are determined to be better than a lot of mechanics who take their job and their salary for granted,” she says.
Sandra’s Lady Mechanic Initiative has now spread to the north with its first project in Kano City where the response from Muslim women has been noteworthy. Slowly but surely, this determined one-of-a-kind lady is taking Nigeria by storm.
Watch an excerpt from her interview:
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