Thulisile Bhala from Ndunge zone joined Inyanda group in 2019.

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Thulisile Bhala from Ndunge zone joined Inyanda group in 2019. She was keen to learn how to grow a larger crop of vegetables in order to supply the local schools after hearing about a shortage in the market causing the school principal to have to go to the city to buy supplies. She reported that the business workshops opened her mind to other opportunities, and she started a knitting and grass- mats making business.

Her business is now doing so well that she is able to take care of her family from the proceeds. She plants ‘amagceba’ (a type of grass) that she uses to make sleeping mats. She also grows crops including maize and beans which her family eat, and she is able to sell to the community.