Stories
Bateleur Capital Money FO'SHo was held in Villiersdorp community it was great and experienced to train young people and adults in one room, it has made me to do it again and again due to their financial challenges,,the activities has thought them how to keep safe and how to take care of their assets due to what is happening to our country. After the training I interviewed one of the participants a young lady, she said she is very happy to have this opportunity, she didn't want to attend the training because when someone told her is about money then she came and listened. She said she was not there to stay because of the bad experience she has from where she was working, she was involved in an accident at work, she never received anything because of Lack of information, after her accident from work they apply for Sassa disability grant and RAF, Sassa is the only money she received at the moment, she said after we did Accident session that is when she understands that the company owe her a lot of money from this month she is going to start the journey, especially now she knows how to do the Claims and where to go if they are I denial of paying back all he monies, she said she gain a lot of experience although she was not there to stay, she is so grateful to have this training and ship is willing to introduce this training to others.
Training took place on the week of the 7th to the 11 of April. The below of is the story of Nolwazi one of the disabled attendees at one of the sessions in Limpopo: I went to Tertiary and I got my amount from NSFAS of R17000.I went on to blow the amount as I have never gotten such a huge figure in my life and stopped going to school.I wish I had this training before.
Bateleur Capital and Coronation MM was held in Villiersdorp community, it was such a great opportunity for the adult and the Youth, They shared a lot of experience and the knowledge. Their challenges is:The people with bad priorities, people who don't understand what is important in their savings. No plans, people must learn how to budget, make savings goals, set up systems that will help them to succeed, and saving for rainy days when cost of living goes up. As I kept on doing these trainings I want to see whatever they earn they must not use more than one third at least they must save one third it gives you resilience, optionality, flexibility if the boss might be very difficult you can save yourself, as we are living in the Farms, I can see the changes in our communities, the way they do things and the great way they planing for their future.
The training took place at AGF Nkowankowa.We had a 64 year old Man who was overjoyed to be part of the session as he did not have any higher training and felt this would help him in terms of his will as he stated he was not aware of some of the things he needed to sort out for. He even committed to visiting the bank the following Monday to fix those.
On 27 March 2025 I conducted a session on Money Fo Sho for an NGO called Bridges of hope. It was so great to see young people interacting with each other. Young people were looking forward to know methods of managing their finances. After the session we interview one of the participants, she said this was a great opportunity and its a life time experience that one has to apply. She said as young people they don't set goals hence the activity was a bit challenging because it needed them to think critically, and it was helpful to her. She also said this training gave her an insight of how important it is to keep her credit record good in order to be able to get assets and build a better future. She also said as young people they do not care about emergency fund for them is to "Blew"all the money and wait for another pay day of borrow somewhere e.g from Mashonisa. She said she wish this kind of training can spread all around the country.
Davidene Saulse is a young, teenage lady that attended the Money for Sho" session on 31 march 2025. She fully participated in all the activities and was attentive to the information shared. She indicated that the session has taught her a lot of how to wisely work with her money, especially to save for future studies.
The training took place in Langa on the 14 February on Valentines day. It was such a joy to see how children and parents were interacting outside the home environment. one of the parents was happy that their children are taught at this young age about money management and savings. They loved the money tin idea and thought of their childhood days when they used to save . the parents and teacher agreed to look for the tins and buy them for each household to save together as family. The day was a great success.
Principal and SGB chairperson were thrilled by the sessions that took place in their school and are very thankful to Avocado Vision and Coronation. They invited me to be part of their team that is looking at their students to do well academically.
2nd group to train MFS with was the EPWP Group from Bethlehem on the 7th of March and discovered that the employment is part time with not much income to cover the expenses we then discussed what could be done to overcome this we did an individual budgeting on the hand out and many realised that they have to cut spending on some of their expenses which was mostly not important essentials (WANTS). We also covered the financial goals using SMART RULE (sharing own dreams) emphasising the fact that a DREAM has to be planned, implemented and evaluated. each drafted own budget and inspect it and we all agreed on practising financial discipline. Continuing with types of insurances by role playing the sales of insurances by participants as representatives followed by funeral covers, policy and WILLS where individuals shared their experiences which came out as lessons to others on why it's important to have concluding with policy covers and it's underwriters.
