Impact of Livelihood Program on Bakawu Bukar
Bakawu Bukar
Bakawu Bukar resides in Muna, Ethiopia, the host community of Jere local government of Borno state. He lives with his parents, a family size of 7. Bakawu Bukar was a camp resident when the camp was closed in 2022. However, the government has put in a lot of effort to see all camp residents relocated safely to their places of first displacement. Bakawu, his family, and many others decided to remain in the Maiduguri metropolis with no house to live in, no source of income, and no one to depend on; this has given rise to another form of displacement in the urban center.
Bakawu manages to get a temporary place through a host community dweller where he and his family stay. Bakawu Bukar was selected for UNHCR/AUN livelihood training for the Urban IDP Program 2022. He was trained by AUN under the Cap Making program for one month and received empowerment after the training session through a voucher of fifty thousand nairas (N50,000) only in October 2022. He started the business of making caps and selling threads immediately after he received the empowerment kits.
His N50,000 business is doing very well to the extent that he now gets N30,000 monthly as profit.
Subsequently, this intervention has changed his life entirely because, from the profit he makes out of his business, he can help his family (parents and siblings) financially in many ways by buying them food, paying medical bills and clothing, paying PTA levy for 3 of his siblings, buys school materials for them. Now he is preparing to get married in the next 4 months.
However, he added a point of service (POS) and poultry farming to his other business.
