For survival, Liberian University graduate, Darius Saye Dolo, had been doing menial (hand-done) commercial washing of other people’s body wears since October 20, 2020.
By: Samuel G. Dweh—Freelance Development Journalist), +23188661896/776583266; [email protected]/ [email protected]
In 2016, he graduated from the African Methodist Episcopal Zion University (AMEZU), located on Benson Street, Monrovia. He studied Public Administration (Major) and Sociology (Minor).
“Two year after graduation from AMEZU, I decided to wash other people’s clothes for my economic survival. My decision was based on call for job from Government’s institutions and private companies whose jobs interviews I was part of, after I had submitted my Curricula Vitae to each on instruction,” Darius told this writer at one of his menial washing sessions at his base along the Roberts International Airport Highway in 2022.
“I bought solid and liquid soaps and rented washing tubs and buckets with part of the washing fees from client. Later, I named my business D & W Laundry Domestic Cleaning Services, Incorporated Inc,” he added.
For other residents of his community to know his services, he toured, daily, around, announcing to occupants of other homes about what he was involved into, he explained further to this writer.
Three years later, 2023, Darius Saye Dolo’s “washing tubs and buckets” were replaced by factory-made “washing and drying machines”. They are in his new laundry house (a building), located along the 72nd SKD Boulevard, Paynesville, After Pure Miracle Ministry International on the right hand side. The building has three rooms—for laundry works, clients’ reception, and the other for clients to attend to nature’s call (urination or defecation).
For now, he is being assisted by Eight (8) younger persons—males and females—as employees. The male employee is Mark Clark, responsible for operation of the laundry machines (with client’s clothes in them) and to iron-dry clients’ clothes after washing. The female assistant is Gormah Mulbah, Secretary. While the other six (6) are during the home’s lanudary along the RIA Highway, VOA Community.
“I am renting this place. I moved in on the second day of December, 2023, in this year,” Darius explained to this writer on a “confirmation visit” (based on his prior information to me) at the University Graduate’s new business center.
Darius Saye Dolo was born on the 27th day of September, 1985.
He is the first child of four children from the union of Mr. Cooper Nyan Dolo (now deceased) and Mrs. Mary Tomah Dolo (living, but visually impaired/blind).