Startup Story
Mércia Cossa Bomba is the founder of N`sky Arte Da Felicidade & Serviços in Mozambique, a small company with four workers focused on manual arts and crafts, and which has been in the market for 5 years. She started her company at the time as a hobby whilst also employed as a secretary for a cosmetics distributor. But because she has a son with chronic atopic dermatitis, she was forced to quit her job in order to take care of her son. However, as she always tried to be financially independent, she started to make handmade invitations and bracelets, and her business was born.
Mércia Cossa Bomba fundadora da N`sky- Arte Da Felicidade & Serviços,EI de 33 anos de idade, empresa pequena, com 4 trabalhadores focada em artes manuais (artesanato), no mercado há 5 anos. Iniciou com a sua empresa na altura como um hobby, e era secretária de uma distribuidora de cosméticos . Mas porque tenho um filho com uma dermatite atópica crónica, viu-se obrigada a abandonar o seu emprego para poder cuidar do seu filho. Mas, como sempre procurou ser independente financeiramente, começou a fazer convites e pulseiras artesanalmente.
LoA learned more about Mércia Cossa Bomba’s story this month as she continues to build her business, create unique products that celebrate capulana, and create jobs.
“There's love in the work I do, it's work I love to do.”
“Há amor no trabalho que faço, é um trabalho que amo fazer.”
What does your company do?
Customization of wallets and shoes with capulana and other types of fabrics. Creation of folders, wallets, bags with capulana, and nappa wedding invitations, bridal bouquets, lapels for the bride and groom. Also children's and adult clothing using capulana and other types of fabric.
Costumização de carteiras, sapatos com capulana e outros tipos tecidos Criação de pastas, carteiras, sacolas com capulana e napa Convites para casamentos, bouquet de noiva, lapelas para noivos Vestuário infantil e para adultos com capulana e outros tipos de tecido.
What inspired you to start your company?
The desire to be financially independent.
A vontade de ser financeiramente independente.
Why should anyone use your service or product?
There's love in the work I do, it's work I love to do
Há amor no trabalho que faço, é um trabalho que amo fazer.
Tell us a little about your team
A team that loves what it does, is not afraid of challenges, they are united, in fact we are united.
Uma equipe que ama o que faz, não tem medo de desafios, são unidos, aliás somos unidos.
“I don't come from any formal training background, I learned by doing and out of curiosity.”
“Não venho de nenhuma formação, aprendi mesmo fazendo e por curiosidade.”
“We are a team that loves what it does, is not afraid of challenges, they are united, in fact we are united.”
“Uma equipe que ama o que faz, não tem medo de desafios, são unidos, aliás somos unidos.”
Share a little about your entrepreneurial journey. And do you come from an entrepreneurial background
Comecei o meu negócio sozinha e fui a minha primeira cliente, fiz os convites e o meu bouquet de casamento. Com o tempo fui me formando e comecei a trabalhar com a capulana que é o nosso xodó na empresa. Não venho de nenhuma formação, aprendi mesmo fazendo e por curiosidade. Em 2021 participei de uma pequena formação de empreendedorismo.
I started my business alone and I was my first client, I made the invitations and my wedding bouquet. Over time, I graduated and started working with the capulana which is our favorite in the company. I don't come from any formal training background, I learned by doing and out of curiosity. In 2021, I participated in a small entrepreneurship training programme.
What are your future plans and aspirations for your company?
Make my brand a national and international reference point and be able to help many women to become financially independent.
Tornar a minha marca uma referencia nacional e internacional e poder ajudar muitas mulheres a tornarem-se independentes financeiramente.
What gives you the most satisfaction being an entrepreneur?
Achieving the satisfaction of my clients and my colleagues (employees).
A satifação dos meus clientes e dos meus colegas (colaboradores).
What's the biggest piece of advice you can give to other women looking to start-up?
Getting started is the hardest part, but with focus, discipline and determination it is possible to get somewhere. Don't give up on the woman you dream of some day being.
Começar é a parte mais difícil mas, com foco, disciplina e determinação é possivel chegar há algum lugar. Não desista da mulher que sonha algum dia ser.
Contact or follow N`sky Arte Da Felicidade & Serviços
FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | EMAIL merciabenilde.cossa@gmail.com
Why LoA loves it…
Striving to achieve financial independence through entrepreneurship is a common motivation for many women entrepreneurs in Africa, and for Mércia Cossa Bomba, that was certainly a driving reason for setting up her business. Today, she is building and growing a business organically, upskilling herself as she goes. Her passion for the products she creates shines through as the interacts with customers who love her capulana inspired work. — Melanie Hawken, founder & ceo, Lionesses of Africa
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