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Our Team Leader Attended SBS’s Global Partners Gathering in Kampala. Thanks to MNS Foundation!In picture above; Stephen & Julie at SBS Gathering of leadersIn the Past Week, our Team Leader @katendes1 & Julie-Anne of @AEProgram attended Street Business School‘s VERY FIRST global gathering of their Global Partner Network. A special thank you to to the M Night Shyamalan Foundationfor making all this happen. Both leaders, Stephen and …
Kisoboka now has 69 SCOBAs. Our Programs Team is doing amazing work sensitizing communities in rural Lwengo and forming New SCOBAs. Seen above is our Programs Lead speaking to Kasana School parents about the benefits of saving and school community banks. Kisoboka Africa has already created 69 SCOBAs and our aim is to have 100+ end of 2022. When …
In a bid to advance digital financial Inclusion for the underserved and underbanked in rural Africa, We recently provided mobile phones & digitalized the SCOBA groups he leads in Mayira Primary School & 33 other communities in rural Lwengo, Uganda to improve access to digital financial services. We are working with partners and friend to ensure that over 1000 School …
For the last 4 years, Kisoboka Africa has been actively working to ensure financial inclusion and economic empowerment for the underserved communities. The team has so far created 51 groups comprising of more than 1500 people and is currently supporting more rural communities to start their very first School Community Banks(SCOBAs). We are creating 20 new SCOBA groups in rural Uganda …
A Kisoboka SCOBA group member checks her savings using a mobile phone while in her retail shop in Mayira community In Partnership with the Roddenberry Foundation, we are bringing Digital Financial Inclusion to the SCOBA members in remote rural areas of Uganda. 61% of our beneficiaries have so far been onboarded onto our mobile digital platform. With this development, members can access …
When she wanted to buy materials for her tailoring business, she borrowed money at a very small interest rate from the Kisoboka SCOBA she is part of in her community which gave her the capacity to increase her production, serve more customers and make more profits. Over the last one year, her business has grown to the extent that she …
Our digitization efforts have now reached more than 955 SCOBA members and counting! Yes, we have continued to enroll the communities we serve in rural Uganda onto our digital platform Mobis in collaboration with Ensibuuko Technologies to empower them to participate in the digital economy. The numbers have so far reached 955 community members and counting. These can now follow …
We are excited to let you know that we have started digitizing Village Saving and Lending Groups also known as School Community Banks(SCOBAs), starting with 33 of them With support from the Roddenberry Foundation Catalyst Fund, we are working withEnsibuuko Technologies, a leading fintech in Uganda to roll out a digital VSLA program that will be used in all our …
On Thursday 19th November 2020, Kisoboka Africa and I Profile Foundation awarded the 6 winners of the Bright Ideas Competition in a colorful ceremony attended both Government officials and Local Leaders. The ceremony was graced officials from the office of the RDC and Chief Administrative Officer Lwengo District. The Winners that were awarded include; Bwire Mrtin of Lukindu …
In the past few months, we have been running a competition in partnership with I Profile Foundation, calling up children in Kisoboka Africa’s partner communities to share their business ideas that they have been implementing during COVID 19 lock down. We were impressed the response as 78 applications were received. As a team, we sat down and choose the …