SUPPORT MICRO SMALL & MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN UGANDA

We have been able to mobilize 115 peole to join village savings and loans cooperatives. 83 of these are women and 28 men. 52 women have joined the rabbit cooperatives group, 11 vegetabe cooperatives, 9 crafts cooperatives, 5 mashrooms cooperatives and 6 multi porporse cooperative group that buys items from the smaller cooperatives. We are now supporting 9 cooperatives in total. all the 28 men mainly youth have joined the rabbit cooperatives groups. We have organized trainings for all the 9 groups mainly on record keeping and effective savings cuture.  We have also trained them on how to plan before borrowing and how to plan the repayment schedule. Our team is designing a system and tools to track the loans and savings from the different groups and impact evaluation. Our target is to see how poor families move from one economic stage to another. we thank all our donors who have contributed to this project. This project has a great potential to lift many poor families and househods out of poverty.

Kigezi Haelthcare Foundation (KIHEFO) has been supporting families to join community cooperatives that in turn supports their small enterprises through savings and credits, so many families have joined Craft Cooperatives, Mushroom Cooperatives, Vegetables Cooperatives , Rabbit Cooperatives and many others. We have already mobilized and angaged two groups, one group has 15 members  and another one has 20 members. we have organised these two groups into two cooperative. One cooperative will start on mushroom growing while another cooperative will start on craft making. We have a plan of mobilising more groups such as youth groups, orphans and elderly into other different cooperatives.

We are waiting for the fundraising to start  in order to mobilise more funds so that we can support these Cooperatives