Impact of Livelihood Program on Hafsat Adam
Hafsat Adam was suffering alongside her family until the UNHCR/AUN livelihood intervention came into her life. She was trained by AUN under the Urban IDP Program 2022 (1st batch) and eventually got empowered after a successful training session that lasted for 4 weeks.
When she received her business items through the voucher, she started her business of cap-making and selling threads superbly and got a huge profit. She runs her business perfectly, earning at least N60,000 monthly as profit.
Speaking to AUN field monitors, she said this empowerment has changed her life completely because before AUN livelihood intervention came her way, life was very difficult for her family, but not now. As a result of this empowerment, she can now support the whole family by providing food and three meals per day, buying clothes for family members, paying PTA levy for 4 of her children in school and 2 orphans, and also providing school materials such as bags, shoes, books, and pen. In addition, she enrolled herself in an Islamic private school in the Customs office area named (Taha).
Moreover, she settles medical bills and pays house rent for her family and her brother. She added by saying that she gave her younger brother the sum of N120,000 to settle his school fees (University of Maiduguri), who has now graduated from the Faculty of Education (Mathematics) and is currently serving (NYSC) the country in Nasarawa state.
Also, one excellent achievement she made from this business is that she purchased a quarter plot of land not too far from her current residential area at N250,000. She is now making bank savings to build it so they can move to it instead of living in a rental house.
However, she added the business of making local soap, shampoo, local bournvita, and local mentholated, and that earns her much.