Monday, September 6, 2010
Mtegyke
Joe has done the interviews and the home visits of the new Mtegyke group. He identified 20 people out of 45 applicants which qualify to go on through the process. He is waiting for me now to give him a date for the business course. It will be a weekend in the end of September. In the meantime I ll meet with a well established Support group in Ntibane. Our support group coordinator gave me the green lights for them and we will visit them tomorrow.
Monday, August 23, 2010
New group at the coast
Hi there,
Joe and me have identified a new group for MF at the coastal side, near Mtegyke. This is not a support group. It is a group of woman fromone area which has been asking us for ages to come and assess them. I always denied becasue we were focusing on Support groups only. But no SG is ready at the moment on the coast side and Joe is mobile now with his bike and can set this group up. He did the initial meeting on the 2oth of August and is going out for interviews tomorrow. Joe also helped a lot with the big evaluation of the Nshilini group. He was busy for two days. He is doing very well and I hope he keeps up the good work.
Joe and me have identified a new group for MF at the coastal side, near Mtegyke. This is not a support group. It is a group of woman fromone area which has been asking us for ages to come and assess them. I always denied becasue we were focusing on Support groups only. But no SG is ready at the moment on the coast side and Joe is mobile now with his bike and can set this group up. He did the initial meeting on the 2oth of August and is going out for interviews tomorrow. Joe also helped a lot with the big evaluation of the Nshilini group. He was busy for two days. He is doing very well and I hope he keeps up the good work.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Vukani Support Group
On the 31th of July I did the payout for Vukani Support Group. The support group was formed around Nolitha Clinic. I started off with 18 applicants and for the business course 14 turned up. 4 failed the exam but had I gave them a chance to try again. Only one gave it another shot and passed. I only payed out 8 people on the end because 2 have fallen sick and were admitted to the hospital and one quit without giving a reason. Maybe she found the whole thing to stressful. To open your own business is a serious thing and I always stress that point in our courses. All 8 are women and we have got 3 chicken shops, 2 blankets and clothing shops, 2 spaza shop and one hardware shop selling mainly gum poles.
The first pay back and evaluation day is the 21 of September.
The Mqanda group had her first evaluation last week and they are doing well. One of the clients was abit lazy with her book keeping and it took me an hour to calculate her balance. We found out that she is in the minus and we agreed that something is wrong with her way to write down her daily sales. well I hope so!
Joe my assistant is doing all the paydays by himself now. And that is a great relief for me. He also got is motor bike now and can reach even far places.
The first pay back and evaluation day is the 21 of September.
The Mqanda group had her first evaluation last week and they are doing well. One of the clients was abit lazy with her book keeping and it took me an hour to calculate her balance. We found out that she is in the minus and we agreed that something is wrong with her way to write down her daily sales. well I hope so!
Joe my assistant is doing all the paydays by himself now. And that is a great relief for me. He also got is motor bike now and can reach even far places.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Nolitha Support Group
The interviews and home visits were done for the Nolitha support group and this coming weekend I will do the business course with them. They are quite a strong group. I have got 17 applicants and they are all able to read and write. It seems like that this group is not gonna struggle to much with the book keeping and the exam.
It seems like we found a motor bike for my assistant. It will speed up the process a lot, if he has got wheels. We still have 9 support groups to open up before the end of 2011. Puh!
It seems like we found a motor bike for my assistant. It will speed up the process a lot, if he has got wheels. We still have 9 support groups to open up before the end of 2011. Puh!
Monday, June 14, 2010
Hello everyone,
unfortunately we had to postpone the home visits in Nolitha last week. Phindani, our Support Group coordinator, had to go to a school awareness day. We set the date on the 22nd of June now. Good news from Joe my manger assistant. He past his driver license first shot and can start doing interviews, home visits and paydays for me now. I hope that will speed up the process of opening more groups because we are behind. Our target is 15 groups in 2 years. Puh!
I m busy looking for a motorbike for him. This weekend I ll by the protective clothing and helmet for him.
All the best, Astrid
unfortunately we had to postpone the home visits in Nolitha last week. Phindani, our Support Group coordinator, had to go to a school awareness day. We set the date on the 22nd of June now. Good news from Joe my manger assistant. He past his driver license first shot and can start doing interviews, home visits and paydays for me now. I hope that will speed up the process of opening more groups because we are behind. Our target is 15 groups in 2 years. Puh!
I m busy looking for a motorbike for him. This weekend I ll by the protective clothing and helmet for him.
All the best, Astrid
Monday, May 24, 2010
Finally back on the blog!
Finally I m back on blogger. After re-structuring our web page and professionalizing our system (Thanks Hyman) I managed to import my old blogs into the new one.
Many things have happened since February 2010. The Nshilini Microfinance group is doing very well and almost all of them are in the time frame. We had some trouble with the chicken farmers because there was an acute outbreak of chicken pox and ALL the chicken died. I was panicking a little bit because non of the locals knew what kind of disease is killing their chicken. Normally they know the different kind of symptoms and treat them themselves but this time nobody knew the answer. So I took one dead chicken to Mthatha and the Vet in town did a post mortem. He found out that the disease is chicken pox and it is transmitted through mosquitoes. It affects the white and the local brown chicken. We had two options. We either wait until winter comes and the mosquitoes disappear or we can get a vaccine and inject every chicken. Some of the clients decided to wait and the others started a new batch of chicks but vaccinated them.I was very positive surprised about my clients financial managment because all of them had put enough money aside to start all over again. I think that is fantastic!
Many things have happened since February 2010. The Nshilini Microfinance group is doing very well and almost all of them are in the time frame. We had some trouble with the chicken farmers because there was an acute outbreak of chicken pox and ALL the chicken died. I was panicking a little bit because non of the locals knew what kind of disease is killing their chicken. Normally they know the different kind of symptoms and treat them themselves but this time nobody knew the answer. So I took one dead chicken to Mthatha and the Vet in town did a post mortem. He found out that the disease is chicken pox and it is transmitted through mosquitoes. It affects the white and the local brown chicken. We had two options. We either wait until winter comes and the mosquitoes disappear or we can get a vaccine and inject every chicken. Some of the clients decided to wait and the others started a new batch of chicks but vaccinated them.I was very positive surprised about my clients financial managment because all of them had put enough money aside to start all over again. I think that is fantastic!
Saturday, February 20, 2010
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