Category: Start Up Stories
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Clarity of Vision & Mission Helped Maria Scale Her Enterprise
Meet Mary Immaculate Nassali, the co-founder and managing director of Oasis Health services, located in Ssi Village, Buikwe district Uganda. They offer health services in rural communities especially to women and children. The lack of access to medical health care to women in low-resource settings was the motivation to set up the clinic. Oasis Health […]
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Developing financial systems helped Prossy scale her business
Prossy Namulindwa is a chemical engineer by profession and a lecturer at Ndejje University. Prossy is driven by curiosity, loves knowledge, and values her spirituality and friendships. There in her has always been a hunger to bring social and economic change first in her stead, and those around her. Today she runs a home-baked business […]
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How a secondary school teacher turned into a successful baker
The pandemic posed a challenge to many of us and more so to teachers in Uganda. Uganda’s schools have been fully or partially shut for more than 77 weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic, the longest disruption anywhere in the world. At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the president issued an order that all […]
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Live your best life now!
Esther is the co-founder and managing director of Beta Eco Farms, an organization dedicated to raising awareness on sustainable agriculture, environment protection, and biodiversity conservation. She’s also a mother of four, a book guru, and a nature-lover. Tell me a bit about yourself. I grew up in the suburbs and rarely had an opportunity to […]
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Alumni Covid-19 Response Innovations
We celebrate the milestones that alumni are accomplishing in the face of prevailing setbacks. Here we are featuring some of the alumni who have birthed creative innovations related to the Covid-19 outbreak and are positioning themselves to profit amidst this economic downturn while bettering the quality of lives for their communities. ‘Not Just’ Ventures […]
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Rehabilitating Street Boys Into Young Entreprenuers
Street children are a common sight in many of the urban cities of the world and we each have our own perspectives about these children. Many of us view them as a menace, lumpens, out of control and criminals that we would rather avoid at all costs. This is because, often times street children are […]