Kewerimidde Women's Group

Forty-three-year-old Namaganda Mastula, treasurer of Kewerimidde women’s group, is a businesswoman who owns a retail shop in Katosi. Katosi is a port city, with the main activity being fishing. In Mastula’s shop, she sells fishing materials such as floaters, oars, jerry cans, fishing nets, and hooks. She has had her shop for six years. Her dream is for her shop to grow and become more lucrative with more fishing supplies of different types. She would like a loan to buy more floaters, fishing nets, hooks, jerry cans and oars. She is a widow with seven children to care for, of which four are her own. Mastula also has a tailoring business just outside her shop, through which she buys material for school uniforms and women’s traditional and casual wear, all for sewing. For the uniforms, she gets contracts from schools, and this only booms at the beginning of each school term. She does all this for the sake of her children’s future.



About Group Loans
In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a group of individuals bound by a group guarantee. Under this arrangement, each member of the group supports one another and is responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members if someone is delinquent or defaults. Learn more

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