By Lyndsay Booth | Online and Multimedia Coordinator
Participants in WfWI - Nigeria's holistic, 12-month training program learn more than just a vocational skill like farming or poultry raising. They learn basic numeracy, the in's and out's of how to run a small business and how to manage household funds. When participants graduate, not only are they able to earn an income by raising chickens or growing crops, they are able to invest that income in building a better life for themselves and their families. Read on to meet Roseline, a WfWI - Nigeria graduate and learn how she is building a new life for herself using some of the skills she learned from WfWI.
Roseline is from Nrobo, Nigeria. Her father died while her mother was three months pregnant for her. Her mother sent her brothers to school, but neither Roseline nor her sisters recieved an education as her mother felt it was a waste for girls to go to school. Roseline eventually married and had one child, but her husband eventually left her. She currently cares for her daughter, and two of her husband's sons. Before WfWI, she struggled to support her family.
Training on “Understanding Financial Household Management, Household Savings, Goal Setting and Opportunities for Income Generation” motivated her to be serious with her farm. She is also able to supplement her farm income with other endevours like selling oranges, frying garri out of cassava, and harvesting and selling of palm products.
She commended her facilitator on the way she treated the topic on “women’s right and law, women and household decision making as well as ownership and inheritance”. She saved her sponsorship funds and other money from her daily and monthly income to be able to achieve her goal of building a house.
When she realized that women can own land, Roseline went to her husband’s people and asked for a piece of land. Her request was granted; a piece of land was given to her and out of her savings and other money she borrowed started building a mud house of 3 bedrooms with a veranda.
Says Roseline, “Women for women has made me proud, I am a changed person”.
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