Fourteen years after launching Despat’s Creative Craft, Patricia Helwig continues to search for the rewards which she believes her efforts should have yielded by this time. Her skills and her drive have not, it appears, been enough to take her business to a higher level and today she has come to understand that succeeding in business in Guyana sometimes takes more than talent, ambition and hard work.
All of Patricia’s business pursuits revolve around her wide range of creative skills that range from culinary talents to fabric and clothing design. Still without business premises from which to ply her trade and display the goods and services she offers, Patricia continues to do what she does from her Prashad Nagar residence. Giving up, she says, is not an option. What she does is what she wants to do and she is sticking with it.
Prior to immersing herself in her current creative pursuits, Patricia worked as a secretary then as a teacher before pursuing a degree in sociology at the University of Guyana. Those days now appear to be
