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2715: MBS. Arise Enterprise: Training Women and Orphans on Vocational Skills
Good morning, let's continue with the nation's big conversations and in the studio with me right now we have an entrepreneur who says his model of business is based on training others to gain skills to produce goods, Timun Tabai from Arise Enterprise says he trains orphans and women in vocation of skills of with making simple products that can be easily sold for profit and he's here with me to tell us more about how his and entrepreneur skills help others. So good morning, thank you so much for making our time to speak to us. Thank you so much my sister, as you say my name is Timun Tabai, I'm a sashudanist. I love mostly vulnerable people and young children and even big people. As said Arise Enterprise and Geron Trading Company limited actual way to become a full company, but to start with we just enterprising. And in this enterprise basically I'm focusing on how can I help the young people, how can I help my brothers and sisters. And before that maybe somebody will ask how did I start this project. Right, so just to make us understand what do you do at Arise Enterprise? So Arise Enterprise, we are dealing in a production of liquid soap that is detergents, liquid soap, jig, deton, air sample, air conditioner, and we also have a DSTV and that is to say DSTV training. We train DSTV installation and we also train detergents. So in your story he tells us that you had a tough upbringing when you were growing up. And this actually influenced your approach to helping others. I just briefly give us a background of Dante. Okay, my sister it is really so hard if you had to explain, but briefly I can explain me myself. I grew up in a house where even I've never seen my father and I've never seen my mom. I only grew up under a care of a brother. So now when I reach like almost 12 to 15 years, so they have to take me to school. You know it is too late, but they have to take me now to school. It's never too late for the great things. So now in the village I was taken to in EA, I was taken to school that is in attend the primary school. So from there when I occur when they see now I can do something very well. So now they see now they have no school fees. My brother says it doesn't have anything. So now the only thing I have to go on the farm. So I said no, this cannot work. I have to engage somebody who can help me so that I can do something. So I had to come to the town so that I got somebody who will help me exactly. So from there school is so hard. I have to do the border border to pay my school fees. I have to go on the farm to fulfill my school fees. So lastly the church in Benjelkolpe's better church that is EPC says no. Timo, you're in the church and you are a lawyer. Why can't we help you since we have senior condition? So they have to help me out not until I actually finish the info. So from there I have to come to Juba. Was that still in attendee? Yes. Was that still in attendee when the church was helping you? Yes. Okay, right. So now let's talk about your work and how this resilience has influenced what you do now. Because you said you are drawn to the vulnerable and you love working with the vulnerable people. So what skills have you been able so far? How many people have benefited from your skill sharing? Yes. When I actually started this, you know, as I said, I started it as a simple work. I usually go to the market, to the custom market. I put my bucket full of water. I put ice inside. Then with a small crystal, I have to move around and sell. So after that, when I see myself actually I'm getting something, I have to go to the vet. I have to get somebody who can help me. But people, they don't want to help me. So then I got a job. I secured some money. I have to do a project of these detergents. So from there, I started by teaching my neighbors. Please let us do this. I have a project of liquid soap and I can do liquid soap. So come, let us do it. One, two, three. Then from there, I have to go to Konyokoyo. Somebody said, Tim, where are we going to Konyokoyo? I said, I'm going to collect these people there who are taking, who are drinking and who are smoking and need this whole place of children. I have to get at least two of them. I have to throw them out to do this so that in the future they will not regret. Then they said, you know, the thing that you are starting, it is very difficult. You have to get money to start it. But now you're starting it like this. How are you going to? I said, I have to do it. So now as I talk to you now, I have some young people who are women of trained. And mostly, the women and the vulnerable people, those who have lost their husbands, I have to tell them, they hope for you. Because they say, OK, they have children that have been left now. What can they do and work like this, you know, this local advocacy in the village. So I said, no, for me, I'm a Christian. I want to teach you something that you will not regret at the end of the day. Despite the fact that chemicals are so hard you will not get, but you get some of them in your location. Right. And for you, where did you get the knowledge from before you? Yeah. Yes, previously, I've been working with the second company. So now in the company, they have not told me how to make this liquid shop. But now when I work with this company, I don't know. I have to go and get experience from somebody. So I have to go to custom, somebody has to train me how to do this liquid shop. Because I've seen, I wanted to do it, but now I cannot do it. I have to pay some money. Then the person told me, after training me, he said, OK, now you can start from here. I can start giving you some chemicals. You can make it for yourself. Then you will start. Right, right. And you also work with the women as well. Yes, yes, yes, yes. So tell us about that experience. You know, women, they always are devices. As I told you, since I've never seen my mum, I have to see every person, actually every woman as my mum. So that's why these elder women and those who have lost their husbands, I have to engage them because I've told them, actually, I'm your son now. I have to tell you something that you not regret at the end of the day. And that's why even if you, I mean, they are in EA because this branch of this place, I have opened it in EA this year. You know, there we also look at how can we help also these women? Because, you know, people traumatize. They have nothing now. Yeah. What could, I mean, they will ask, what can they do to survive? But now sometimes you go to the market, you sell this vegetables, yes? They can get you something, but they will not take you far. You only sell and you get that sugar, you go and get that salt. Then you go and get that salt. But now you not get something that you pay your children, maybe in a secular school or in a university. Right. And Timothy, well, we understand that this work, you're helping, you're giving a helping hand to the people. But how is your business growing? Are you able to realize profits? Here, it is very technical because now if I train somebody, then I say, okay, no, I can train you for free. Go and work, go and get your own. Now, for me, I would look like the little that I have, because if I train you with my liquor shop, because this liquor shop, maybe I used 30,000 to buy the chemicals. Then when I train you out to make it, and of course, that remains. They want, I mean, the liquor shop that already, it is your work already on, and it is already there, I can use this and I can sell. I have my motorbike, I can't. So you sell the product? The product. Okay. Then from there, me, my M is, I wanted somebody not to suffer in me. Right. So do you like define the profits with your trainees? No. I cannot, I don't divide the profit, but I give them my knowledge. Okay. Yeah. So what would you like to see in the future, particularly with those that you work with, how do you want to see them grow? Always, my advice is, somebody say, if you wanted to know, the right way, actually, if you want to know the right way ahead, you have to ask the person who is already coming. And that's always my legacy. If I wanted to know what is there ahead of me, I have to ask anybody who is already coming. And that means, yes, it means those are my illness. I have to ask them, how can I move ahead? Right. I have to ask anybody, how can I move ahead? And then they'll give me the right advice. Others will say, okay, Timo, we're giving you this 10,000. Some people will give you a device. So now that will be very well. All right. Timo, why? Thank you so much for letting us know your story and where you've come from. And thank you for being a generous person. And that will make you grow.