Eliazari NIYIBIZi’s Success Story
Eliazari NIYIBIZI 49, a Refugee from Democratic Republic of Congo was resettled in Kisura C, Rubondo Zone, Nakivale Refugee settlement by The
Office of the Prime Minister and UNHCR where he has been living since 2006. Eliazari, is one of the individuals who were trained in the month of November 2019 by the HFU Trainers of Trainees about Financial Literacy. He acknowledges that before this training, He had plans of starting up a poultry and piggery project around his home but lacked the basic skills and financial discipline to raise enough money to commence. However after the training, he narrates that he managed to learn various financial skills like Budgeting, Saving, and Financial management. He managed to pass on these skills to some of his family members.
He now has a poultry project of 43 chicken and piggery project of 10 pigs worth startup of 1 Million Ugx that he accumulated from his savings. He says that he started with 50 chickens but due to various circumstances lost 7 of them but the piggery project that he started with just 2 pigs has since then prospered.
Eliazari, has since then been selling eggs and pigs to make supplementary income for his family activities. He states that this Training was an eye opener towards him opening up these projects and has since then started expanding his poultry project from a small portion of his house backyard to a bigger and semi-permanent construction to be able to accomodate a bigger project. Funds He has generated from saving skills obtained from FinLit Training and creation of VSLAs have helped him facilitate most of the expansion costs. He is now a member of 2 VSLAs ie. ALPHADJIRI which consists of 52 members and another RWC VSLA of 10 members.
He has words of gratitude towards HFU and WFP that managed to come up with this training initiative that has improved their well being, way of handling money, Record keeping, Saving through Village Saving Groups that have enabled them to better their lives and be able to put money to good use.
