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Kisoboka provides invaluable training for business start-ups in rural Uganda
03 January, 2025: Starting mid January 2025, Kisoboka will be holding six online training sessions providing valuable insight on how to build a successful business within a rural economy in Uganda. The aim is to put education and know-how into the local community, focused on the Masaka area, and through the creation of local sustainable businesses, alleviate poverty.
This is a “training the trainer” scheme where local teachers are given the training and each of these then spread the knowledge and in turn train those wishing to start-up their own business. This programme is in collaboration with Masaka District Landcare Chapter (MADLACC) who are providing day to day support to students on the ground.
The training will be given weekly, over the six weeks. Topics covered will include:
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What is your business idea and how will it be delivered?
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Who are your customers and how will you attract them to your offering?
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How is your offering different from what’s already available
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How to plan the resources required, managing cash flow and the need for record keeping
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Developing an action plan and then ready to start the business venture
Training starts on Saturday 11th January 2025 at 8am UK time and then every Saturday at the same time for the next 6 weeks. Course work will be sent prior to each session and printed out ready for when the session starts.
Mentoring support is provided by a local businessman who is on hand to answer questions that arise from each session and further down the line once a business has started.
Two trustees join as we say goodbye and thanks to Suzanne Hodnett
05 November, 2024: We welcome two news trustees to Kisoboka - Aisha Williams looking after Finance and Peter Gardiner is our fundraising champion. After many years of work for the charity, we say goodbye to Suzanne Hodnett and thank her for her commitment and hard work at Kisoboka.
Both Peter and Aisha have experience of volunteering in Africa - Aisha with organisations in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe and Peter in Malawi and Sierra Leone. Peter sees The Kisoboka Trust is a brilliant chance for him to use his skills to enhance the lives of those in parts of Africa.

Aisha Williams

Peter Gardiner
Exciting progress at Happy Hours Primary School
12 October, 2024: The children here at Happy Hours Primary School in the Masaka area of Uganda are excited to soon have latrine facilities at their school. Currently there are none for the 620 pupils that come to school every day.
MADLACC are co-ordinating the build, thanks to funding from Kisoboka. So far a 25 foot hole has been dug, the latrine block walls are almost up and soon the roof will be on. Then the children will have access to safe sanitation.
Help us build more latrine facilities for rural schools like Happy Hours Primary -- schools where there's no sanitation at present. If you're a school, community or business that would like to raise money we can put towards building more sanitary facilities, we'd love to hear from you.

Kisoboka funds Latrine block at community school with no sanitation
7 September, 2024: Continuing its mission to ensure rural schools in Uganda have sanitation and safe drinking water, Kisoboka has started a programme of building latrine facilities where there's no sanitation at present.
The first school to benefit from this programme is Happy Hours Primary School in the Masaka area of Uganda. Working with MADLACC in Uganda, Kisoboka has funded the building of four latrines at this school. Here there are 620 pupils with a plan to expand further.
The latrine is being built by local people, with Kisoboka providing the funds for the materials. Using local people for the construction equips the school with the knowledge needed to maintain these buildings. It also means this expertise can be used to construct latrines at other schools.
Fundraising at Orchard Junior School in Dibden Purlieu, Hampshire through the children's "Water Walk" contributed an amazing amount - all £600 of which has been put towards the building of this first latrine block.
If you're a school and would like to raise money we can put towards building more sanitary facilities where there are none in schools in Uganda, we'd love to hear from you. Indeed, if you're looking for a project in your community or for your business to support and make a difference by supporting children's basic needs, do get in touch.
Improvement in public health brings the potential for communities to break the cycle of poverty – something that’s central to the work we do at Kisoboka.

"Water Walk" by UK primary school children raises money to help those in Uganda
29 November, 2023: Thank you Orchard Junior School in Dibden Purlieu, Hampshire in the UK for raising money to help Kisoboka continue their work in bringing safe drinking water to schools in Uganda.
On Friday 20th October, Year 5 children took part in a "Water Walk" around the school field, as part of their cross-curricular learning topic, "Water for All". The walk involved carefully collecting and carrying precious water from the source to the collection point as part of the challenge. What they didn't know was that their teachers had pierced holes in some of the containers to reflect the fact that carrying water in Africa is not easy. With the help of family and friends, the children raised an amazing £600 for the charity.

Many children in Uganda don't have access to safe drinking water. Kisoboka, as part of it's Emmaus project, is helping to change that. The project installs 20,000 litre water tanks with filters and associated components in primary schools in the Masaka district of Uganda. This provides these schools with their own water storage, providing drinking water between wet seasons.
Staff at the school have been impressed by the children's sense of empathy and desire to donate money to this cause. Head of Year 5, Jo Fenton said: "It has been really impressive to see the children want to make a different to the lives of families in Uganda. They were shocked and saddened by the fact that, each day, over 800 children across the world die from drinking from dirty water sources. They wanted to make a difference and were enthused by the whole project."

Kisoboka work taken forward to provide WASH facilities at 33 schools in Uganda
4 May, 2023: Kisoboka is instrumental in researching and scoping a project to provide safe drinking water and water for sanitation in schools in the wider Masaka district, Uganda. The first of 23 schools earmarked for the project is St Judes School where four 20,000 litre tanks with filters and associated components have been built. This school now has its own water storage, providing drinking water between wet seasons.
Kisoboka was involved with the initial research of this programme that is now being delivered by WaterHarvest and MADLACC. We chaired the initial project meetings, helped assess and appoint the engineer to oversee the project and contributed 50% of the costs to produce the baseline study report which included shortlisting the schools most in need of safe sanitation.
The project objectives are provision of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) facilities across 23 schools in Southwest Masaka District of Uganda and the installation of new facilities to meet school demands.
See how the concrete water tanks are constructed:

Tank foundation stabilised
with hardcore

Casting the tank base has
started

Tank base is finished, now
building of wall starts

Walls are constructed from
concrete blocks

Building of the walls continues until 2m high

Two 20,000 litre water tanks are now finished