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By Bongiwe Mafuya
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I had a priviledge to train Mabhobho community , they are in a 2 to 5 years learnership in Horticulture, The group consist of illiterate groups and educated groups , first sessions of the 3 modules was attended by most iliterate group in a 2 years learnership, this group had participants full of wisdom and have attended Money Fo Sho trainings before Module 1 to 3 was relevant to them and I also learnt lot from them . Their engagements were encouraging , it was fulfiling to hear how they value the training and see potential to turn around their financial life , They realized sense of emergency of financial behaviour change in the 2 years they've been awarded the learnership. The rest of the group is youth with secondary and tertiary education but have been forced to marriages by circumstances, they are willing to use the 5 years learnership to start businesses, invest some of their stipend for future after learnership .Some have identified boosting income ideas within horticulture which will see them as suppliers other than employees, horticulture is broad this training helped them to identify opportunities within . Exposed in salary for the first time and had a chance to be trained about finances before the first pay Cheque. Participants no longer see big cities as the only business opportunity places but see financial literacy training as the solution to poverty and dependency on grants . I'm hoping the remaining participants will get this type of training which will help them rebuild their lives with financial future