Rose’s Story: Striving to get rid of poverty

Rose Ngoka is a young lady who is struggling to transform her life by exploring different opportunities that come around. She is 23 years old with a college background employed in a certain Organization but her depending on the monthly salary she cannot fulfill her basic needs and accomplish her dreams. Wherever she sees an opportunity she makes use of it without considering if she can or not, what she believes in that, she can if she gets training and be ready to act on the issue.

She is a SUGECO farmer who is cultivating Orange Fleshed Sweet Potato (OFSP) on a one-quarter acre of SUGECO farmland in Morogoro. She likes to encourage other youths to fight for life regardless of their educational background that someone has.

 ‘‘To me de, gree is nothing if you cannot even make 2500ts per day (equivalent to one dollar US). Instead of wasting the time with nothing to do waiting for employment, it’s better to  employ yourself and seek help from others to build your own enterprise’’

For months, she has been working with Kathleen Novelia who is a Food Preservation and Processing Specialist, a UNITERRA volunteer from Canada in making different dried fruits. This started with her offering help to Kathleen as she saw the number of different fruits she was processing. The simple gesture turns into a complete training that finally enables her to now process her own dried fruits and establish her micro-enterprise, called Amani: Premium Dried Fruits.