From sleeping on the streets of Cotonou and Porto-Novo in Benin Republic for about 2 of my first 4 weeks in Cotonou (after relocating on 1st April 2013), I went on several months later to:
A. Win a diplomat in the Nigerian Embassy as a client who:
1. Engaged me to build a website for his farm business based in Iludun, Ekiti state, in Southwest Nigeria.
2. Provided me accomodation in his official residence – for 3 solid weeks.
3. Arranged for his driver to take me down to his Farm in Southwest Nigeria (3 different times) – click photo below to view actual Facebook post from September 2013 – to install my Excel-VB poultry Farm Manager software on his farm, and coach his Farm Manager (and young relative of his – a graduate of agriculture in her early 30s) on how to use it.
B. Get contacted by a European Union Funded NGO: who went on to pay me 2,500 Euros for writing (at their request) a Case Study paper about my Excel-VB Ration Formulator and how it was being purchased and used by Farm CEOs in and out of Africa.