Stay-At-Home Mum Finds Business Niche

Meet Losalini Loga, the stay-at-home mum who’s got everything planned down to a tee and found a business niche amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

For anyone who is and who knows someone who stays at home, it can, many a time, be all too overwhelming.

But with proper planning, that is, getting her four-year-old son on a manageable routine, down to having a ‘toilet cleaning day’, The Wonton Shack and The Bored Housewife Project Fiji was born.

“I was a little bit bored when Suva went on lockdown and I guess that’s how I really came up with the name ‘The Bored Housewife Project Fiji’,” Ms Loga said.

“The whole lockdown happening, restrictions and Chinese restaurants being closed, that’s when it struck me to make wontons.

“The marketplace needs was the first thing I thought of when I started making wontons and the loloma basket project.”

The Wonton Shack trademark, she uses as a promotional method while selling food at the ROC Market. The Bored Housewife Project Fiji allows her to sell local products, wantons included, by making a basket hamper, which she weaves herself, for those who order online.

The factor that makes Ms Loga’s business different are the products she uses in the hampers.

“I like to refer to my loloma hampers as a ‘Team Fiji Loloma Basket’ because it includes so many great local products and I just want people to see what we have got and appreciate it,” said Ms Loga.

Losalini Loga.

The 30-year-old is a graduate from the University of the South Pacific (USP) who has knowledge of operating innovative business.

“I studied and graduated from USP with a degree, a post-graduate diploma and a Masters in Commerce in 20I9 and I wanted to try something new based on my passion and my own efforts.”

The former Yat Sen student is happily married and said: “We’re like yin and yang (husband). He’s a farmer; he’s hardworking, handsome, humble and he’s such a great dad too! He has taught me so much.”

Edited by Ranoba Baoa

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