By Irene from wandegeya, Kityerera sub-county. | Project Beneficiary
“I feel more empowered than ever thanks to Act4Africa. I dropped out of school some time ago because of the financial problems at home which left me with no option other than sitting at home and doing the daily chores like digging, helping my mum and taking care of my siblings. I had lost hope in life and reached an extent of getting married at this very tender age to help settle my family financial situation.
On meeting with Act4Africa, they taught us different skills. These included animal husbandry; poultry, goat rearing, piggery and other agricultural and entrepreneurial related areas. This enabled me to start up one of these related small business. I was also able to acquire saving skills among others. We managed to form a group and used the saving skills to open up an account in the bank, started our own saving account and I was able to get a loan from the group saving to start up my own business.
I used this loan to get a stall in the trading center, bought one sack of silver fish and one basin of tomatoes and five kilograms of onions. With this I am able to earn for my personal effects, parents and my siblings where possible. With the profits got from the business, I plan on expanding my small grocery business so that my stall looks attractive to the customers in that more can come and support me. Am happy that this business keeps me occupied and don’t have time of loitering around like other girls of my age who at times end up in bad practices like having sex when they are not yet ready and going to nightclubs among others.
I am very grateful for empowering me and the installed confidence and self-reliance you have given me".
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