På lördagskvällen hölls den fjärde upplagan av Maishagalan på Södra Teatern i Stockholm.

Vi kan här stolt presentera de som fick en utmärkelse på årets gala:

Årets entreprenör 2011

Vivat Arvidsson Årets entreprenör

Vivat Arvidsson är en kvinna med mod och fantasi som kämpat och studerat och förkovrat sig och så småningom startat eget. En av de första, som här i Stockholm öppnat en afrobutik för hårvård och kosmetika. Detta var redan 1999 och genom åren har butiken utvecklats och fått större sortiment, plus en avdelning med frisörsalong. Besök butiken här: www.visons.se

English

Maisha gala jury motivation:

Necessity is the mother of invention, which can be read as, ‘difficult situations inspire ingenious solutions.’

Entrepreneurialism has to do with seeing a gap or need and creating a solution to remedy it.

The Award for Entrepreneur of the Year goes to a woman with vigor and vision. A woman who combined  necessity with entrepreneuralism. A woman who after being made redundant, saw a need and filled the need. A woman whose idea went from concept to consumer with little to no capitol.

That idea was to open an Afro boutique that sold weaves and cosmetics to and for African women in Stockholm.

She took course after course until she had a working knowledge of how to manage and run an independent business. In 1999 she opened Visions Boutique. She went from a ‘stand in Skärholmen to a store in Södermalm.’

With the success of her business she has expanded and opened Visions Hair and Beauty Parlor, and is now set to open Vision Boutique’s web shop, to cater to those African women who live in areas across the country that do not have an availability of these African products.

Ladies and gentlemen the 2011 Maisha Entrepreneur of the Year is, from Sierra Leone, Vivat Arvidsson.