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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 …
When we started working with rural communities in rural Lwengo and Lyantonde, we created SCOBAs to improve income levels of community members in order to empower them to educate their children. We saw this as a more sustainable way of solving the rampant school drop outs and absenteeism that had become common place in the communities we were operating in. …
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 …