Uhuru Overview
We train, coach and mentor cooperatives, community collectives to improve their business practices and get better value for money, increasing their member’s income and family wellbeing. We also provide affordable business financing options, ICT solutions, business networking events, and linkage to market opportunities. We support open spaces for free thinking on development alternatives and public policy advocacy.
We run social businesses that expand our social impact outreach, deepens democratic practice and protects human rights through providing urgently needed services to our clients. These enterprises include:
- Coop360Network – that enables business networking and capacity building.
- Coop360Profiler-an online data processing, monitoring and evaluation MobileApp.
- SplendorApp – a cloud based enterprises resource planning system.
- #No Excuses – a youth leadership & entrepreneurship camps, and learning caravans.
- Freedom Fund – a finance company for financial literacy, affordable credit, and fund management.
- CoopTree – a green business promoting tree planting and energy conservation
- TheCooperator News – a magazine and voice for cooperative business model
- The People’s Space – a people’s open space for free thinking, and research on development alternatives and advocacy.
We work through agency agreements entered into with existing cooperatives, business associations and community groups who join the Coop360 Network.
We accompanied the Kampala Civic Center Boda-Boda Motorcycle Transport Cooperative Society Ltd (KCCBT) from inception through registration to the growing cooperative it is to date. And the lessons from piloting the Freedom Fund products with them has opened great opportunity for affordable finance to this massive transport industry.
Our clients include Cooperatives, Village Savings and Loans Associations, Youth, other collective business associations, relevant government MDAs, Development Partners and Civil Society Organisations.
CUSTOMER CARE LINE |
+256 414 581453 +256 776 677150 |
Bwindi Trust House, Plot 1 Katalima Crescent, Naguru P.O Box 27794, Kampala |
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Mon – Fri ( 8:00 am – 5:00 pm) |