ROC Market vendor Suren Pratap believes those who are capable of earning an income should continue to do so despite their age.

The 53-year-old Suva resident has been a regular vendor at the Sunday market, selling Samoan block-printed sulu and T-shirts.

“This is my wife and I’s business now and although we have children, they are all big and can support themselves, so what we earn from here is just for my wife and I,” Mr Pratap said.

“A Samoan man taught me how to do these designs and from then on I decided to turn what I have learnt into something that can help me bring in some money for the two of us.

“Because it is block-printed, it takes me about two days to carve out the designs onto a wooden platform and in one day I can make about 50 sulu from that design.”

Mr Pratap said the minimum monthly income of $250 was enough to cater for their needs.