Now four years into running her own business in the predominantly male-dominated, local, booming construction industry, Canada-born Guyanese entrepreneur Sonya Oodit, 28, is the only local businesswoman supplying a variety of geotextile fabrics for mainly sea defence and road construction.
Her goal is to make Tropic Construction Solutions the number one geotextile company in the country.
“I started with the purchase of one type of geo-textile fabric which is the woven PP80 (polypropylene) in 2019. It’s the most commonly used geotextile fabric in Guyana. I started selling that to a few small contractors who do sea defence works,” she told Stabroek Weekend in a recent interview.
