"I feel confidence and internal calmness"

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Many youths loss their golden age without doing anything worthy for themselves, their family and the country. They waste their crucial time due to bad working culture, lack of working capital, and other reasons.

While their energy and knowledge exhausted without any contribution. As a result, they'll be in jeopardy concerning their life at their retirement as they couldn't generate income in their early ages. So, ORDA gives due attention for job creation to youths and tries to curve the situation of unemployment.

ORDA's Improving Youth Employment through soft skill training and other supports project, which has an aim to create a job for jobless youth, was launched in July 2018 in Ebinat woreda, South Gondar Zone with a total budget of 5,245,696 secured from Gafat Endowment Enterprise (95.3 % share) & ORDA (4.7 % share). Among beneficiaries, Mrs. Tigist Minale, aged 23, is found. She worked for seven years in private beauty salons with a monthly salary of Birr 600. She was unable to get married and establish a family.

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In this occasion, she got an entrepreneurship & money management training from the project. Then, she got loan of Birr 80 thousand with 8% interest rate and opened her beauty salon. The loan was obtained from the project through the management & credit facility of Amhara Credit & Saving Association (ACSI).

"I got involved in my own business, beauty salon, in June 2019. I borrowed 80 thousand Birr with 8% rate and bought different beautification equipment. Finally, I rented a house in one thousand Birr and launched my work. Now I am getting net 5 thousand Birr per month. I employed a supportive staff in one thousand Birr wage, and I paid my first six month debt obligation 14 thousand Birr, interest & principal", she said.

"Now I feel confidence and internal calmness. And, I am sure I will contribute my share for my country".

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