It is said “You only become strong when you don’t have a choice”. Here is how Nitaben Makwana had an experience of the same.
Nitaben, a regular housewife looking after daily household chores and taking care of kids. Her husband was working in a company at Dubai and life was all good for a typical middle class household. Her husband used to send the money which she was using for payments of bills and groceries. She had a few fixed deposits in her and kids name. She writes,
“On one unfortunate day, my world was torn apart when my husband passed away in an accident at Dubai. I was left all alone with 2 kids Hetansh and Nishant to be taken care of. One who has hardly went to any financial institution had a tough time to run post to pillars to get all the finances together. Not being financial literate I was anxious and worried of my kids’ future.
I once got a chance to attend one of the financial education programmes of NCFE. After the programme, I felt a ray of hope and strong-willed to learn financial knowledge. I got to know about various asset classes like gold, equity and mutual fund. I am now managing money by learning the financial planning and asset I have reduced unnecessary and investing before saving. I have also started tailoring work and am on the path of financial planning. I sincerely appreciate the efforts of NCFE for bringing financial literacy to the doorsteps of common man which made this happen.
