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During january 2021 I trained community members of Steytlerville in Hollard Streetwise finance. The groups included the newly contrated teacher assistants. They appreciated the training and enjoyed it very much as some are first time earners and were never exposed to financial literacy, as one Mr. Cross put it he was about to spend all of his money knowing that the next paycheck is coming, but now that he has attended the training he will better plan the use of his money and try and save for when there is no contract and for other things too. It was very interactive sessions and the participants were open to tell their experiences. They wished me to thank Hollard for bringing the training to the rural area of Steytlerville and Avocado Vision for enabling the training to be facilitated in their area and they wished for more trainings to come to them.
On 21/12/2020 - 23/12/2020 we empowered communities of Siyangena infomal settlement as well Winnie Madikizela informal settlement. All three sessions were successful and productive. The community members appreciated the training and they said they are looking forward for more trainings like these. I must commend the community leaders for organising the venues and the participants. An assessor from Hollard was present too. "These Financial literacy training are very helpful to our communitues, we learn lot of new methods on how to manage money" one of the community member Thandokazi said. They also said they would appreciate if there can be follow up programs just to check how they are doing with their finances.
Sanlam MM training had a huge impact at Makgobistad / Phitsane Village.... It was for the first time people had such training and they were so happy and asked that i should come back with more trainings in future.. I so wish to get back to them with more workshops in future. I am very grateful to Avocado Vision and Sanlam for giving me this opportunity to impact peoples lives positively..
I had the privilege of facilitating the Sanlam Money Fo Sho program in the areas of Steytlerville, Jansenville and Willowmore during October and November. I had a very successful sessions and the participants were enthusiastic and appreciated the training very much as they got exposed to new information or/and the old reinforced through the training. Budgeting seem to highlight my sessions as some are budgeting but end up not implenting it hence the importance they realised of differentiating between needs and wants and prioritizing items on your budget. The risk module also highlighted the need to assess your needs as it turned out that many over insured in some instances yet they were either under or not insured at all in other instances. The credit module also had people speaking as some did not realise how credit works and how much money is spent on credit rather than the item. Fraud and scams as always is a hot topkc as many people only realised during the training that they were being scamed and are spenfing money pn fraudulent stuff. The training was a huge success as it brought useful and relevant information to our people and hopefully they will follo through with their promise to change their financial behaviour and plan better for and the future
Sanlam MFS and MM Since it is now level 1 recruitment was no longer a problem and people were coming in numbers to attend trainings. Money fo sho went well and I promised my groups to come back with MM. Unfortunately I couldn't because the target was enough for 1 group. The challenge was that people were no longer wearing masks and had to buy disposable ones for them. That led to a thorough covid awareness as most people believe in myths than facts On one Sunday a Sanlam representative visited us to evaluate training. She was excited to see how the programme is managed. She also raised her concerns about the duration of training.
Sanlam money fo-sho financial literacy training was held at nu1 community hall. The learners showed enthusiasm and the training went very well. They didn't know the difference between transaction account and savings account , and they promise to start saving money. They were so happy about the certificates.
My session went very well considering I had older people than my usual groups,although because of the hot weather some of them found it difficult to concentrate under their masks,so I told them to go outside and get some air should the need arise.Banking is always a winner,this is where they asked the most questions.Lastly,i had this guy who was just there to disagree with everything i said WOW!!!!
Productive session with a group of chefs in training. It was a bonus that they even enjoyed the food we had prepared for them.
