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Lwentale Primary School in rural Lwengo is one of the schools we recently extended our SCOBA program to and with in weeks of forming our first group of 30 members which was filled up very quickly, another one was formed up in record time. Since 2016, Kisoboka Africa has been empowering communities in rural Lwengo to save and start income …
Beyond financial inclusion, Kisoboka Africa is working with communities to empower them to have food security because they are usually affected drought and famine. To achieve this, the organisation supported Lukindu SCOBA members to create a demonstration farm and a nursery bed for seedlings. Last week our team distributed the seedlings to the SCOBA members who where excited to …
The first time we met Nakalisa, she had been living in abject poverty in the village of Kiwangala, rural Lwengo. She had no established source of income and was struggling to take care of her household needs. However, when we visited her recently, we realised there had been a turn around in her life, a visible change of fortune. We …
Kisoboka Africa team has started carrying out a survey to establish the poverty levels in the region with goal of creating pathways to ensure financial inclusion and youth empowerment in underserved communities. To achieve this, we are intending to scale-up school community banking (SCOBAs) activities to more communities in Lwengo district. School community banks are school based groups of parents …
“Working with QCT is going to help us equip 1,000 youth and women with business skills that will enable them start a business, or improve their existing businesses, and therefore improve their livelihoods.” Stephen Katende, founder of Kisoboka Africa Tell us a bit about yourself. I am Stephen Katende, and I’m the founder and team leader of Kisoboka Africa – …
“Having been supported mainly women in my education, I grew up with a passion to support vulnerable women to live better lives and have the ability to access quality education for their own children.” While working in Lwengo District, Uganda, Stephen Katende observed high rates of school dropouts and out-of-school children in the area. As he researched more, he …
As schools closed last Thursday, our team visited & sensitised #children on effective #health measures to observe in order to prevent the spread of #coronavirus. We also took time to demonstrate effective hand washing using clean #water and #soap and encouraged them to practice #SocialDistancing during this period. At #KisobokaAfrica, We strongly believe that communities #prosper when they have a #healthy and #educated people and so we delligently work to ensure this. In the pictures above, the team …
This feature picture shows a SCOBA (School Community Bank) meeting taking place at Building Tomorrow Lukindu Primary School. We pioneered SCOBAs in rural primary schools to open up opportunities for parents to save their money, borrow to invest and also get crucial business training to start income generating projects. This is catalysing their path to #prosperity and empowering them to actively participate …
As Kisoboka Africa grows, so has the demand for the services of the organisation in rural Uganda. This is because of the tangible impact that has been experienced the many parents and children the organisation has been working with in the districts of Lwengo and Lyantonde. Because of this impact, word is spreading to many other schools across the …
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 …