Finance
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Cooperatives & Communities
Gulu District SACCOs Run On Shoe-string Budget
GULU – About 30 cooperatives in the northern district of Gulu will be kneecapped financially in the 2021/2022 financial year. They have been offered only Shs 7.9 million to run their activities…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Kwania District Releases Emyooga Cash
KWANIA –After passing the multi-layered fit-and-proper test, at least four out of 36 Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs) in Kwania district have finally received Shs 30 million each under the Presidential Initiative…
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Microfinance Institutions In Trouble In Kwania
KWANIA –In Kwania and Apac Northern districts Savings and Credit Co-operative Societies (SACCOs) have become the preferred go-to lenders threatening to lock out microfinance institutions. The SACCOs are drawing in huge numbers…
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Cooperatives & Communities
SACCO Leaders Shun Management Training
HOIMA – Last week Hoima City and the district leadership scheduled two weeks of training sessions in financial literacy for all SACCO leaders that lack basic money management knowledge but surprisingly they…
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Cooperatives & Communities
SACCO Saving Kids With Nodding Syndrome
OMORO – Unsupported anymore by the government or Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), parents of children battling the debilitating Nodding Syndrome in the northern district of Omoro have turned to saving groups to support their…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Roadside Business Loans Spur Trade In Nebbi
NEBBI – Loans may keep some people sad and trapped in a cycle of debt, especially when they outpace one’s savings. But Agnes Akumu, 45, a roadside clay pot dealer, is all…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Abapiri Farmers Lobby For Shs 400m Warehouse
KWANIA –Frustrated by how little farm produce they can stash away, a 450-member group of farmers allied with Abapiri Oil Seed Cooperative Society, in Abapiri Village, in Chawente Sub County, Kwania District…
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Gulu Farmers Avoid Large Scale Farming
GULU –Deeply frustrated by the high cost of opening and ploughing virgin land, farmers in Acholi sub-region have steered clear of large scale farming. Beatrice Kipwola, a member of Paicho Central Kal…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Gulu Rice Farmers’ Group Goes For Big Loans
GULU –The 48-member Latyeng Farmers’ group in Gulu District has big plans and an even bigger appetite for loans. First, the group wants to morph into a cooperative largely to attract big…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Pay Dispute Rocks Atiak Out Growers Cooperative
AMURU –Rebel war abductees allied to Dwog Cen Paco Cooperative Society in the Northern district of Amuru are demanding about Shs 8.68 billion in wages for work done for Atiak sugarcane plantation…
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