{"id":4394,"date":"2025-10-18T18:18:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T18:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pioneers.org.zw\/?p=4394"},"modified":"2025-10-18T18:18:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T18:18:56","slug":"from-market-stall-to-online-store-tariros-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pioneers.org.zw\/?p=4394","title":{"rendered":"From Market Stall to Online Store: Tariro\u2019s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tariro, a talented artisan from Bulawayo, used to sell her handmade baskets and crafts at a local market stall. Her customer base was limited, and sales were inconsistent. After joining PIONEERS&#8217;\u00a0<strong>Digital Marketing and E-commerce<\/strong>\u00a0program, she learned how to photograph her products, create a social media brand, and set up a simple online store. &#8220;I thought the internet was just for entertainment,&#8221; Tariro admits. &#8220;Now, it&#8217;s my marketplace.&#8221; Within three months, she was receiving orders from across Zimbabwe and even internationally. Digital skills didn&#8217;t just supplement her income; they transformed her local craft into a global business, allowing her to employ two other women from her community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tariro, a talented artisan from Bulawayo, used to sell her handmade baskets and crafts at a local market stall. Her customer base was limited, and sales were inconsistent. After joining&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pioneers.org.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pioneers.org.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pioneers.org.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pioneers.org.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pioneers.org.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pioneers.org.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4396,"href":"http:\/\/pioneers.org.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394\/revisions\/4396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pioneers.org.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pioneers.org.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pioneers.org.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pioneers.org.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}