Kyanjovu village is one of the places where Kisoboka Africa operates. It is a place where many people face challenges such as poverty, food insecurity, low education and limited access to financial services. They lack the capital and skills to start or grow their small businesses, such as farming, trading or crafts. They also struggle to pay school fees for …
Priscilla is a mother of 4 children, who lives in Nakyenyi village, Lwengo district. She is also a member of the Nakyenyi School Community Bank (SCOBA), a savings and credit group supported by Kisoboka Africa. Priscilla joined the SCOBA in 2020, after attending a sensitization meeting organized by Kisoboka Africa in her community. “I was interested in joining the SCOBA …
In rural Uganda, poverty is a pervasive reality that affects every aspect of life. But our organization, Kisoboka Africa, is working tirelessly to change that reality. With a focus on scaling deep, Kisoboka Africa is making a lasting impact on the communities it serves in Lwengo district. Kisoboka Africa’s work centres on empowering local entrepreneurs to rise from poverty to …
At Kisoboka Africa, we are passionate about promoting financial inclusion and economic empowerment in rural underserved communities of Africa. One of the ways we do this is through co-creating and working with school community banks, which are saving and lending groups established within schools to provide access to basic financial services. School community banks have become a popular mechanism for …
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 …
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 …
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 by the response as 78 applications were received. As a team, we sat down and choose the …
Beyond financial inclusion, Kisoboka Africa is working with communities to empower them to have food security because they are usually affected by 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 …
