At last Wednesday’s ceremony at the offices of the Small Business Bureau (SBB) to mark the handing over of grants of $200,000 each to thirty-five small business owners, 24 year-old Carl Ajeday appeared suitably pleased. Receipt of the grant had meant that he had satisfied the requirements set by the Bureau and that his power washing enterprise was ‘going places,’ perhaps not yet at breakneck speed but at a pleasing pace.
His Willis Street, Republic Park home address doubles as his place of business and it was there that the former Mae’s primary and secondary school student first conceptualised the idea of pressing a power washer into service as a business tool. “It all came from using the power washer at home,” he says.
