21/06/2024
BUSINESS / LIFE LESSONS 3
I have discovered this trend recently.
I work with an NGO and before our beneficiaries are empowered financially, my boss asks me to give them 2 weeks intensive Business training .
After the training, they are supposed to kick of running their businesses. It is spelt out that the money given them is seed money and should not be used for personal needs (that's our policy, we teach you to "fish" and then buy you equipment to do it yourself). From "fishing" you Can comfortably meet your other needs.
After a few months, I go to their walls and all I see are shared posts of people they are expecting to hand them give aways. Some times up to 7-10 posts a day and nothing about your business is there.
Even when you were taught how to use your social media to market your products .
I have come to the conclusion that some people just want hand downs.
No, they don't want you to establish a business for them; they don't want to work it out.
Neither do they want you to give then a job, stress too much
They are entitled.
All they want is for you to keep giving them hand downs (They believe you have it so you are supposed to give it). This discourages the givers and also blocks the road for those who would have genuinely used that money to give themselves a better lease of life.
Whoops!!! What a thesis.