Jangu International Limited

Jangu International, after six years of successfully providing educational sponsorships for orphans in Uganda, its graduates were unable to join university or find meaningful employment. A new approach was needed and that’s how a model that empowers marginalized youth in Uganda to unleash their potentials, gains skills and experiences and to become social entrepreneurs was prototyped tested and proved to be functional.

Our unique self-organized learning environment has proven successful, with 370 youths aged 18-30 having undergone training. Remarkably, 95% of these individuals are now either employed, self-employed, or have initiated their own social enterprises.

A mobile Social entrepreneurship and ICT Lab
Building on this success, we are excited to launch a groundbreaking program combining our social entrepreneurship training expertise with Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Our goal is to bridge the digital divide within communities, ensuring that both the youth and the elderly can seamlessly interact with the digital world, engage in online transactions, market products, make online purchases, access educational resources and making research.

To address the specific challenges faced by rural women in central Uganda's Mityana and Mpigi districts, we are tailoring our program to focus on enhancing smartphone productivity and efficiency. Our approach involves bringing mobile social entrepreneurship and ICT labs directly into these communities, providing hands-on training and support.

Revolving funds for Linking projects;
The projects that have tested their solutions by generating the initial $160 in a month (concentration stage) struggle to make the next step in growing their revenues because they lack startup capital to invest in their often product development process, tools requiring investment of less than $1000. We are considering building a structure with a revolving fund that they can access and repay for others to use with a very low-interest rate to support the fund's management costs. This is something l wanted to ask if you would be willing to help start. Our goal is $15,000, and we are looking for five people, one contributing. $5000, and the other four each contributing $2500. So far, one volunteer has committed $2500 to the fund.