BE A MICROBANKER FOR WOMEN IN UGANDA
Help women in Uganda to start or expand small businesses
What we do?
We help tens of thousands of women in Uganda to start or expand small businesses. The women are micro-entrepreneurs: they want to start a two acre farm, open a little shop, invest in fertilizers, buy a cow or a few pigs – over the years we have seen hundreds and hundreds of different business ideas. Through an innovative model, we support these entrepreneurial women by giving them a small business loan to get started.
What makes us different?
Our principles
Prioritized
Helping the extreme poor of rural Uganda, who are truly stuck in a poverty trap.
Efficient
Using 100% of your donation to help the women, and recycling your donation after every microcredit repayment.
Innovative
Developing new organization models and using technology to work where others cannot.
Non-patronizing
Supporting the women to develop their own potential with simple financial services, without telling them what to do.
Example sponsor opportunities
Prossy needs to boost her chicken business
Prossy wants to construct a modernized pig sty and buy better breed piglets because the market for pigs is growing every single day. She also sites a challenge with feeding the pigs due to her limited resources. Prossy is optimistic that the loan will help her buy…
Boost her stall
Ruth own astall in kyanja. she sells grocery items such as tomatoes onions green vegatables and many more. she has operated this business for 5 years now. she has many customers and she wants to stock various items as demanded by her customers….
Farming
Ruth own astall in kyanja. she sells grocery items such as tomatoes onions green vegatables and many more. she has operated this business for 5 years now. she has many customers and she wants to stock various items as demanded by her customers. she hopes to make more profits and pay school fees for her children.
SYPO IN NUMBERS
$ 7,682,180
Disbursed since start
95.0%
Repayment percentage
30,187
Microcredits since start
Microcredit on Social
Latest project updates
There is a lovely little coffee shop in the village of Katosi, owned by Monica. Monica used the second microcredit she received from SYPO to open up this coffee shop, to diversify her income away from just her farm. The first microcredit she used to invest in that farm: her Friesian hybrid cows live on 1 acre of pasture and eat the elephant grass that Monica cultivates. The cows produce 5 litres of milk per cow each day, which Monica can sell and use to feed her family. Not only does Monica use the land for cows; she also grows multiple different crops. Because of the loans she now has enough money to take care of her children and pay their school tuition.
Where do we work?
Mukono and Buikwe in Central Uganda
SYPO works in the districts Mukono and Buikwe in Central Uganda, bordering Lake Victoria, the world’s largest tropical lake. It’s a primarily agricultural region, growing coffee, vanilla, bananas, and other crops. SYPO originally started in this area, and it’s the region we know best. We grow in small ‘zones’; typically a village in the middle and a few smaller villages and farm areas around it. Each zones supports up to 1,000 micro-entrepreneurs. The demand for more microcredits is still overwhelming; we need your help and donations to reach thousands more women and help them start their businesses. See the graphic to the right for our growth plans.
