Business entrepreneur and owner of TIROSI Food Café.
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BY CHRIS ALEX

FOR many Solomon Islanders, running any form of business is a way to make a profitable income. For some, it is a setup to use their gifts and talents while also receiving accomplishment.

However, for Samantha Laore, owner of TIROSI Food Café is much more than a business, it’s a personal expression of her family’s sacrifice and struggle in times of hardship.

Don’t hold back, is what echoes in her mind after years of personal sacrifice and struggle to set up, revive, and keep alive her small café business – TIROSI Food Café, which is located at Ranadi, East Honiara.

TIROSI Food Café, which is located at Ranadi, East Honiara.

Amongst other most successful women business entrepreneurs in the country, Samantha, 48, is a mother of three, who hails from Western and Malaita province, and she’s the wife of the late businessman and Member of Parliament (MP) of Shortland Islands, Honourable Steven Laore.

Since the passing away of her late husband in 2010, she opted to continue managing the civil construction company owned by her late husband, whilst behind the scenes trying to raise her three children as a devoted mother.

However, Samantha lost her grip on managing the civil construction company and soon turned to a food business (at that time the café was located at Kukum, Central Honiara), which didn’t last long either.

Business Entrepreneur, Samantha Laore (third from right) and employees of TIROSI Food Café.

“After my husband passed away I decided to do away with civil works and to concentrate on my owned business the food cafe, and later on things didn’t work well so I decided close down both the civil company and TIROSI food café,” she told SOLOMON WOMEN.

Just recently, Samantha reopened her food business – TIROSI food café a few months ago, which is now located at Ranadi, East Honiara.

“We closed the food cafe for several years and we planned to re-open it last year, unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the social ethnic unrest, we were not able to do so until the beginning of this year, just a few months ago,’ she said.

Interior of TIROSI Food Café during recent renovation work.

Apart from running a food business, Samantha is passionate about food and cookery despite having no formal qualification in the art of cooking (culinary art).

“As a standard six leaver, I did not receive any formal certificatory for cooking as everyone might think, out of my hands, this is what I can offer for my kids and people who wish to come here at TIROSI food café,” she said.

Meanwhile, Samantha’s simple advice to female Solomon Islanders is “what you can make out of your hand, stick to it and build on, follow your heart and believe in yourself or if there are some obstacles along the way turn the other way around.”

TIROSI Food Café.

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