…or in this case, 250 people at a time!

I am delighted to be able to announce that, at this very minute, our Footprint team has 10 ‘Money fo’ Sho’ ‘ sessions running across Gauteng!  Even as we speak, almost 250 people are engaging in very important financial literacy conversations that will empower them to make critical personal financial decisions for many years to come!  By Friday, we will have trained just under 500 people, and hopefully have tested all our processes, given our trainers some live practice, and also fed 500 people.

This is one of our pilot days to give each of the trainers we engaged to help us run training sessions as part of the FEF project we are rolling out, a chance to practice, be mentored and coached, and build the confidence they need to go out there and bring the message to the people!  By the time we’re done, in about April next year, we will have trained over 10 000 people!!!

Part of the empowerment plan is to encourage grass roots entrepreneurs to supply us with catering for the training days, train the actual training programme, and get involved in sourcing learners to fill the training sessions.  Today, the Boikamosa Boys excelled in their learner sourcing project - we had crowds of people lining up to be trained (even turning some away, as we can only cater for 25 people per classroom: will revisit there again tomorrow).  Lele Direko, our grassroots caterer, has been bustling all over Soweto ensuring that everyone is well fed.

I am so proud of the Avo and Footprint team that has stood together to make the empowerment dream a reality - all of you have worked your beanies off to get to this point.  Take a bow.  You are all just awesome!!!