Adding to basket
The consumption rates of alcohol in Uganda are at an all time high. Alcoholic beverages of all types sell highly, not only in urban areas, but also rural areas where most people live below the breadline. Those who have studied this rising phenomenon made deductions to the effect that most people in Ugandan urban centers are social drinkers.
The best part of it all is that people usually gather for this drink in the evenings after a hard day's work.
Most Ugandans take the example of 38-year-old Rose in Jinja and have been cashing in as the phenomenon grows. Rose, for example, opened her own pub in the metropolis of Jinja three years ago and the happily married mother of three says it’s been by every inch a worthwhile experience.
She began this enterprise with capital from her erstwhile general merchandise retail trade. She sells all sorts of alcoholic beverages that she says are in high favor with old and new clients alike.
She says her sales revenue totals up to 100,000 UGX weekly.
Rose says she is going to use this Kiva loan money to purchase more crates of both hard and soft beverages to resell.
In this group: Rose, Irene, Anastansia, Zamu, Hadijah, Zaujja, Sarah, Catherine, Josephine, Amina, Edinansi, Mastula, Slyvia, Rose, Lukiya, Ruth, Rehema, Zula, Besi, Habiba, Norah, Phinex, Zauja
