Combined efforts are needed to have women in rural areas not to live for only tomorrow but live longer, sustain themselves economically and assure them of greater hope.
VSLAs Trainings for Rural Communities
ZOORA is motivated by social economic aspects aimed at providing more prosperity benefits for a larger community with various opportunities to promote the youth and women throughout the economy and demand for subsequent subsidies for social economic development processes.
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A Word from the Founder
A journey coupled with mentorship, grooming and preparing my next step of fulfilment working in a commercial bank for 13 years until 2017 September when I voluntarily resigned my job in the leading and the biggest national bank in Uganda, Centenary Bank. A moment I began a new career in my life away from the usual cooperate dynamics to a much more complex, but rewarding driven by passion and childhood memories.
I had a great passion for the unbanked, the poor women especially who not only are the bread winners for their families but who contribute more than 76% of the labour force in Uganda’s agricultural sector the back bone of our country and Africa as a whole. These I would not serve in the bank due to institutional regulations that govern commercial banks and other banking institutions.
My upbringing and childhood memories had everything to do with the birth of ZOORA Vision. Zoora means to discover and it came from my father’s name Kazoora. He was a trained teacher by profession having trained by missionaries. He had passion for children and wished everyone would go to school. By the time he passed on, he had about 15 children he was supporting in primary schools, 4 in secondary schools, and two in higher institutions of learning. He had already supported many that were already working as police men, teachers like himself and church catechists and reverends.
Zoora centre for empowerment (ZOORA) is a community empowerment platform for VSLAs to access digital education in finance, enterprise development, smart agriculture, climate change, gender dynamics and proper record keeping for a positive attitude towards work and use of technology.
It is a Digital Data Management System that enables rural women farmers in groups capture savings, farm records and get access to agricultural inputs for farming.
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