My Nigeria: Sandra Aguebor - Lady Mechanic

Sandra Aguebor is Nigeria’s first Lady Mechanic. Growing up in Benin City in a polygamous family, Sandra’s mother actively discouraged her from following her dream, sometimes beating her when she would be out tinkering an engine instead of doing her kitchen chores. But Sandra is the sort of woman that responds well to adversary. She has now built a network of lady mechanics that is spreading from city to city in Nigeria by training ex-sex workers, orphans, and victims of trafficking to be mechanics. Sandra likes to think women are better suited to high quality, technical work on motor vehicles. 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 unprecedented.