Christina in part of her plantation THE warmth with which Christina Tony greets you and her mounting excitement as she describes a typical day in her 20 years of being a farmer vendor in Honiara, the capital of Solomon Islands, belies the backbreaking work that’s the foundation of her entrepreneurial trajectory. The 44-year old was married by her 15 th birthday and realised very quickly that she needed an income to support her family. Christina chose to start at the market and has never looked back: today she owns a conference centre in her village of Arietakiki. “I had a dream that I must have a conference centre when we were at your (Markets for Change) training. When we have government departments or business people come here, they don’t have to sit under a tree – they hire my conference centre,” Christina said. Christina inside her conference center Christina who hosted more than 100 groups in 2018 was a 2016 beneficiary of financial literacy and agriculture