Akua Afriyie, a woman in her 70s in living in The Bronx, isn’t your ordinary senior citizen.
Instead of simply just enjoying her retirement, she’s hard at work creating her own fashion line according to this video from News12 The Bronx.
She tells News12 that in order to make ends meet she had to set aside her dream to work in the fashion industry but now she wants to inspire other seniors and show them that age shouldn’t be a barrier.
Watch the video:
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