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 …
“Having been supported mainly by 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 …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
There is still high drop-out rate due to a number of reasons not limited to poverty, limited parental engagement in education and issues related to menstruation management. A case is Lwengo district, one of the operational areas for Kisoboka Africa, where many girls have dropped out because their parents claim they are too poor to keep them in schools. During …
At kisoboka Africa, we know that grooming children with skills is key to preparing them for the future. We have been at a centre of instilling a savings, leadership and entrepreneurship culture to children in schools through Young Savers Clubs On 17th April 2019, it was a special afternoon as #TheYoungSaversClub in Lukindu BT academy as it closed its financial …
