Business Success Story: Florence

Meet Nakayibo Florence,
a graduate of the Global Village Connect Business Training Program

Florence fled her abusive husband, and she and her seven children now live with her aged mother. To make money, she began to work as a common laborer, digging in someone’s garden. She explains, “My mother is old, and depends on me for support.”

After attending Global Village Connect’s Business Training Program, Florence learned that even with a small amount of money, you can start a business.  She saved up 35,000 shillings (about $9 US) and used that money as starting capital for her business.

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​Florence went from earning intermittent funds when she could find work to earning a steady income from her business — enough to feed and clothe her seven children, send them to school, and no longer worry about how to pay a doctor bill if a child becomes sick.​

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With the money she bought wheat flour, cooking oil, two plastic buckets and some green plantains, or matoke. She began making donuts and matoke to sell.

Florence’s business has been slow but steady — but still life-changing. She can now afford to cover her children and mother’s basic needs. Plus she can afford to buy books and cover school fees, so her children are able to go to school. Another benefit, she explains, is that she has enough money to take her children to a doctor if they fall sick. 

It’s not always simple though, explains Florence. She says, “Because I have many dependents and my business is small, it is difficult for it to grow, but I still operate it with the little that I have. I use that little to buy the food at home and the basic needs, and I will not give up on this business.” 

Florence is currently expanding her business to include turkey farming. She has saved profits from donut and matoke sales and was recently able to buy two baby turkeys. She knows that adding more lines of income helps to diversify her funds and add financial stability. Florence also sees the potential in having an “emergency fund” with ownership of livestock.

Florence explains, “We hope that these turkeys will reproduce and we shall get more turkeys. When I get more money we can then add on more turkeys. Then we can have many turkeys here, and they can serve me in times of need by selling one to get money.”

Florence is incredibly grateful for the opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship that has led to her to make enough money to care for her family. She says, “I want to thank the organization so much that brought the business training school to Putti because through them I got knowledge on how to operate a business and that is how my business is able to survive. 

“Thank you so much to Global Village Connect and may God bless you all.”

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Just $300—or $25 a month—covers the tuition for a six-month entrepreneurship program and enables another parent to feed and send her children to school, like it did for Florence. 
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