MY SUCCESS STORY
Ifeyinwa Igwe is my name, a native of Onyikwa Ndiagu Amagu community Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. I was born in the year 1992 in a polygamous family, my parents are still alive, and both are poor farmers. My father is a palm wine tapper. I am the second child out of 15 children. I stopped at the junior secondary education because there was no money to continue sponsoring me. DEC entered our community in the year 2012, with her people oriented programmes. Having come from a poor background, I keyed into the opportunity posed in front of me to learn fashion and designing. Fashion and designing have been my child hood dream that was why I engaged in it for the past 2 years.
My training in DEC has built ego in me; I now have choice in life. Not every boy will talk to me now in the village when I travel home, and my community people and my family members now respect me. I would have entered into early marriage because that is the order of the day in my village and poverty would have cut me up by now. It is good for one to suffer first before making it in life as an English adage says “no cross, no crown”. God lifted me up through DEC. I can now design cloth for any caliber of people. More kudos to DEC Enugu! “Levels have change o.”!