“It was my mum who introduced me to the financial meetings at the UCKG HelpCentre…
“We came from our homeland because we’d heard that the UK could provide us with a better quality of life, I was excited.
Sometime ago, my brothers and I decided to build a three storey commercial building, so we agreed with one another to take out a loan to carry out our plan.
‘I was one of the lucky few to get a job at Costa.’ These were the words of one chosen employee, after a newly opened Costa was swamped with an astonishing 1,700 applicants for eight vacancies. The report was released on 19th February 2013*.
My husband and I got married in Ghana last year. He did not have a British passport, but after several months living in Africa, we applied for him to settle with me in the UK.
What compels a well-established accountant to quit the career she initially chose, and embark on a new and contrary journey?
Five years ago my financial life was totally ruined and my husband I came to the HelpCentre without the will to live! My husband and I had lost everything; house, car and everything else that we had in our name.
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