Through our business training program, we are empowering Maama Martin (in the picture above) and many community members like her in Lukindu community, Lwengo District to start and run their own income-generating projects to profitability and rise from poverty to prosperity. We equip them with skills including raising capital, record keeping, sales, and marketing coupled with a strong monitoring and …
Year: 2019
Empowering the Girl Child through Menstrual Hygiene Management Training
On Saturday 21st August 2019 at Lukindu BT Academy Lwengo District in partnership with Smart Girls Foundation, we played self esteem games with Primary 5 to Primary 7 Girls from Lukindu and Mayira BT Academies, talked to them about Menstrual Hygiene Management(MHM), taught them how to make reusable pads and gave them smart bags that contained eco -pads, MHM booklet …
Agnes’ journey from two poor quality piglets to a model piggery project
“I have two small pigs that I rear under a mango tree “Those were the words Agnes told our field officer during a conversation in 2016. She had just joined the School Community Bank at Lukindu BT Academy to save money and access loans to improve her livelihood plus accessing entrepreneurship knowledge. Since then, Agnes has got several loans from …
Empowering Women through School Community Banks (SCOBAs)
In honor of International Women’s Day, we’d like to shine a spotlight on three entrepreneurial women we met in Uganda on our recent visit with Katende Stephen, founder of Kisoboka Africa. The first is Nakiyemba Florence, who serves as the leader of the school community bank the Kisoboka team helped to establish in her rural village. This brilliant banking model …