Lubugumu Twekembe Women's Group

Jane has two businesses. She is a farmer growing mostly bananas, cassava and sweet potatoes as well as making local alcohol to sell to bars around her and in the city centers. With the local brew, she makes waragi and tonto whereby she prepares spear grass that is mixed and mingled with the ripe juice-producing bananas (mabidde). The juice that comes out is put into jerry cans. Sorghum is mixed and covered in a previously dug hole for a week or two and the end result is Tonto. For waragi, the tonto is again put into metal cans and placed on a fire with a tube that connects to two more metal cans from which the boiled tonto moves and is cooled to make waragi.

In a week, Jane can make and sell 10 jerry cans of tonto and 10 of waragi as she also sells to her daily customers who drink at her home. Jane needs a loan to be able to buy more bananas, a metallic can, and firewood for her local brewing business.



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