Our impact

400 businesses, three districts, one model that holds

What sustained investment in Uganda's informal sector looks like when it's measured properly — and what it produces.

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Years of operation
By the numbers

Portfolio performance

Figures reflect cumulative activity across Jinja, Matugga–Kampala, and Busia since inception.

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Capital deployed
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Monthly dividend returns
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Reached financial independence
Areas of impact

Four ways a single investment compounds

Capital placed in a market business rarely stops at the business. It moves through households, employees, suppliers, and the wider local economy.

Entrepreneurs in a Prograte training session

Economic empowerment

Access to capital and financial literacy training so women entrepreneurs can grow their businesses on their own terms, sustainably.

Job creation

Supporting businesses that hire locally — with a strong bias toward employment opportunities for other women in the community.

Skills development

Training and mentorship that build lasting business management capability, not one-off cash injections.

Community development

Increased trading activity, stronger supplier relationships, and household income that stays in the local economy.

Stories

The businesses behind the numbers

Three entrepreneurs, three sectors, three very different uses of the same investment model.

Sarah's fashion boutique

80% growth

Tailoring shop to fashion label

Sarah's Fashion Boutique

A second machine and fabric stock turned a one-woman tailoring shop into a business with two employees.

Grace's restaurant

120% growth

One eatery to three locations

Grace's Restaurant

Staged investment funded a central kitchen, letting Grace open two further locations in eighteen months.

Mary's beauty salon

90% growth

Home salon to high street

Mary's Beauty Salon

Equipment finance plus pricing training moved a home-based salon onto the high street.

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