Radio Drama Janete

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SEASON 1 SYNOPSIS

Janete started her business like several other Mozambican women, with a small stand in front of her house, where she sold egg sandwiches and the delicious bean soup that her mother taught her to make. After a while, she felt it was time to change, to take a step forward in life, and that became decisive when Tina, her eldest daughter, entered the university; she had to start helping her husband pay her tuition fees. That's when Janete set up her first restaurant in the New Market, using only the day-to-day management skills she used at her small business at home. The challenges grow every day, with record keeping, budgets, stock management, business plans and so many other exercises necessary to make a business grow. Janete counts on the help of her friend Elsa and her daughter Tina to make everything work. As her knowledge increases, she gains more confidence, manages to adapt to the adversities of the pandemic, sets up a takeaway business, and creates a brand of Achar that she also sells at the restaurant, opening new doors and perspectives for the future. Over 26 episodes of 15 minutes, we follow Janete's journey to become a successful entrepreneurial woman.

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SEASON 2 SYNOPSIS

Time to Change
New family members, new plans to embrace these changes! Elsa, Janete's close friend, receives the news that she is going to be a grandmother and feels the need to help her son and daughter-in-law to build their own space to live. Janete lives all her compadre’s concerns as if they were her own and gives her the strength to find a solution. While thinking about a business solution that could bring extra income for her friend, they start to hear about the expansion zone beyond the neighborhood, where new constructions and small businesses appear all the time. Janete convinces Elsa to open her own business, ensuring that with her help she will succeed. Together they discover the perfect space, the only question is that the area still doesn't have electricity. To open the restaurant, she asks Janete for a loan, promising to pay it back as soon as she can. The bet is mouth-watering meals and snacks like muchuchu, oxtail, gizzards and tripe. The main audience is the workers in the surrounding neighborhood. In this adventure they will face some challenges to succeed and find innovative solutions to the problems that affect them, even managing to help the neighborhood and inspiring other businesses to grow.

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Season 3 Synopsis

Janete is visiting her hometown in the north of the country to see her sister and nephews. During the visit, her sister Dida tells Janete about her desire to take her sewing business out of the house, and asks her older sister for help knowing she is good with business. Dida would like to open a sewing shop in the market, but she doesn't know how, she has doubts, her sewing machine is old, and what she earns is not even enough for the household expenses, let alone to save. Janete knows her situation well, she has also been there, and gives advice to Dida on how to better save and manage her money, through her mobile account and formal banking services. Dida's business evolves gradually, as well as the knowledge and success of the members of her savings group who support her throughout this process, becoming in time, like a second family.