Abstract:
This report is a gist of activities carried out during the 8 weeks' internship attachment at Centenary bank, Kotido branch; a micro-finance bank that provide the best credit facilities to farmer groups all over the country with the main office located in Kampala city. The training was done to enrich students with Extension experiences, exploring careers and gain occupational competencies useful in the fields of Agricultural Economics. It was started to provide credits and loans of agriculture while increasing food security, equality and natural resources sustainability and with a vision of being the best provider of the financial services, especially microfinance. As regards to the training, farmers were divided into groups in their parishes under different organizations like Goal and Mercy Corps and Caritas. The loan officers were rotated among the groups using the rotation plan developed to encompass the programs of farmers' field appraisal. The activities carried at the organization Include: orientation on different topics to be covered at Centenary bank, training registered farmers of different organizations how to get Agricultural loans from the bank. Loan recovery and analysis, filling of the loan documents, account opening for farmer groups amongst others. During the training, I gained practical skills and: knowledge on the relative activities mentioned above as well as good interpersonal skills of mobilization, presentations and leadership at the bank. I know that the details I learnt through my experiences in Centenary bank will be very valuable in my immediate future when choosing a career path. However, few challenges were faced like; long distant trek, unfavorable weather conditions, high insecurity among others. All in all, it was a wonderful experience where I got the insight and motivation to pursue a career in agriculture related disciplines, with the help of the great team and support staff. I believe that the internship was a success and I strongly recommend this great institution for internship.
