Gugu Ncobo is making steady progress toward ensuring a sustainable garden.

Gugu Ncobo wants to continue to maintain a vegetable garden and is making steady progress toward ensuring a sustainable garden.

She says: “Previously I found maintaining a garden to be challenging because I worked alone. Now I am in the programme and socializing with others in it, I have the drive to keep going. My life and goals have taken a different turn since becoming a group member of ACAT in 2023. I lost a lot of time because of my lack of knowledge about potential business ideas prior to the training.”

Gugu also says: “The ACAT training has helped me to think like an entrepreneur and I now have big hopes for my future. From this garden, I has been able to make additional money, contributing to my income at home and I am planning to extend my garden after seeing this benefit. I welcomes the ACAT concept of saving and loans, although I currently save in a stokvel, I thinks that the ACAT model is preferable as it considers the future and unforeseen circumstances.”

Gugu’s group of 7 members, which is currently being formalised, have agreed to start in July 202