Our Impact

Banio and his team have facilitated several team building events, sales training, and customer relationship management sessions for us.

What my team has appreciated most is how the training helped them understand human behaviour and psychology, why people make the decisions they make. Once they understood that, they did not just learn techniques to close a sale. They became salespeople who understand people, and that has helped them grow in influence with our customers.

I registered my two nephews for the camp at St Joseph's College Ombaci, Arua, because I wanted them to have something I did not have growing up.

When they came home, I noticed real changes, more personal responsibility, more respect toward elders, a clearer sense of their own goals, and a new willingness to work hard for what they want. I wish many more parents knew about the Boys to Men Mentorship Programme.

Our team went through a Team Building event with Banio in 2022, at ERI Park Beach Hotel in Arua. Banio had been referred to us by another branch that had benefited from his exceptional team building session, and once our team experienced it for ourselves, we understood why.

We left with a simple, clear picture of how we work best as a group, and we have seen real improvement in how we communicate and work together since then. We still talk about some of those lessons in our meetings today. I am glad that the quality of the work has seen his team referred to do the same for other branches.

We brought together a multicultural team for one day at Silver Springs Hotel in Bugolobi. I already knew how competent Banio and his team were, and they did not disappoint.

From the very start, right through the day, people were connecting and learning together, about trust, about accountability, about leadership. It was remarkable how much was achieved in just one day. We later asked Banio to design a longer programme, and we are still in it.

We organised a 3-day leadership training and team building session for our senior managers in November 2025, at the beautiful Araa Fishing Lodge in Adjumani. What I appreciated most was how full of games and activity it was, real learning blended with real fun. Most trainings we have attended before involved a lot of sitting and a lot of PowerPoint.

This was different, and our managers stayed engaged the whole time. Banio and his team even came back in March 2026 to run a one-day follow-up session for the same senior managers, free of charge. It went so well that we also invited them to run the same programme for two other sets of our mid-level managers at Lok Neno, Lamwo.

My observation of Nobert comes from two periods. The first was during my time at horizont3000, when I supervised him directly. The second has been more recent, the times I have invited him as a consultant, especially for team building events and ERI Approach trainings.

Across both, the same thing has stood out. He creates a room where people feel safe enough to be honest, which is where real change begins.

I joined the MEP Masterclass in 2023 at St Monica, Gulu, with no business plans. I was simply waiting for a formal job to come along. The programme changed how I saw myself and gave me real skills in entrepreneurship that I did not have before.

I started selling shoes by the roadside, moved to selling clothes door to door, then opened a small boutique. Today I also run a mobile money business alongside it. I am still growing, but I know exactly where I am going.

The ERI Approach training, held at Christus Centre in Arua, changed how our team runs community sessions. We learned to facilitate in a way that draws people in rather than lecturing at them.

Communities we work with are now more active in their own trainings, and we are seeing real movement in household incomes and food security as a result.

A few of our staff first encountered Banio at a team building event organised by CORDAID South Sudan, one of our partners. They came back inspired and wished he could be invited to support our entire team. That is how we first met him in 2023, and the demand from our team for more of his work has not stopped since.

Over time he has run sessions for us at the Youth Centre in Juba, on leadership, on trust, and on self-leadership, the kind of leadership that starts with how you manage yourself before you manage anyone else. What changed in our team was not just how we worked together, but how safe people felt to speak honestly without fear of being judged. Years later, people still share lessons from those sessions in our day to day conversations.