After Living in China For 6 Years, This Female Entrepreneur Returns Home to Launch Zimbabwe’s First All-Women-Owned E-Scooter Delivery Business

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After spending years living and working in China as an English teacher at an international school. Elizabeth (last name withheld) returned to her native Zimbabwe inspired by China’s prowess in logistics and widespread use of electric scooters.

Now she’s leveraging her China experience pioneer Zimbabwe’s first-ever all-women-owned, green-powered scooter delivery business. “We sourced the scooters from Guangzhou, China where electric scooters are pretty normal there,” she explained. “It was quite easy for me to get them from there since I can speak the language and I lived in China for over 6 years.”

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