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AUXFIN Uganda had the chance to join Soroti’s hardworking and dedicated farmers. Agriculture is the backbone of Uganda’s economy, and their efforts ensure that families are fed, businesses thrive, and communities grow stronger.

​Boniface, who joined the G50 program in 2019, shares his initial experience with fish farming:

"When the disease attacked our fish, AuxFin quickly responded by sending us the necessary medication. If we had notified them earlier, we might have been able to prevent the loss of the fish. After receiving the fish to start the fish farming, we decided to pool our funds together to buy a tent to protect them. We then organized our work into groups of three during the day and two at night, ensuring constant monitoring of the ponds.

Hakizimana Anésie, from Rubagabaga 1, shares her experience with the G50 program. "The G50 program first taught us the importance of saving, and in addition to that, they introduced a new idea: teaching us fish farming. I was very excited, especially since meat was a luxury we could rarely afford. Although there were more women than men, we quickly got to work. Building the ponds was very hard work, but despite my age, I actively participated."

​Ntirampeba Annonciate, a woman from Rubagabaga 1, shares her enriching experience with the G50 community. Initially, the group received extensive training on good farming practices and the importance of saving. Recently, they learned how to build fish ponds. It was much harder work than she had anticipated, but despite the challenges, she and the other community members persevered. However, their first attempts at building the ponds failed, and the structures collapsed. This prompted them to adopt new techniques, using more durable materials to ensure the ponds' stability.

AUXFIN Uganda is pleased to be part of the Money Harvest Expo again this year, an event empowered by the International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) in partnership with Agriterra. This event aims to promote financial, social and economic inclusion for farmers’ groups, cooperatives, and other stakeholders in the agricultural value chain.

Adidja, a Muslim woman, recalls her early days as a young wife. Married at a very young age, she quickly had five children, all born close together.

At 48 years old, Côme, a farmer and father of five children, lives a life marked by frequent absences due to his work, far from his family. These absences have forced his wife to bear the heavy burden of raising their children alone, often born close together due to the lack of family planning.

Imagine yourself in the shoes of Mrs. NIZIGIYIMANA Anastasie, a 39-year-old woman brimming with hope yet confronted with numerous challenges. Before discovering SSR Coach, she faced a real puzzle when it came to spacing out her pregnancies.

AUXFIN Uganda is thrilled to announce the successful completion of a year-long project that has brought transformative change to refugee communities. Over the past year, we have achieved remarkable milestones:

According to the 2016-2017 Demographic Health Survey, 85% of women give birth in healthcare facilities, which means that 15% give birth at home. 8% of adolescents aged 15 to 19 had already begun their reproductive life : 6% of them have had at least one child and 2% are pregnant with their first child. Unmet family planning needs remain very high (30%), and the percentage of women who give birth and leave the healthcare facility with a modern contraceptive method remains very low. This rate was estimated at 2.3% in 2023.

AUXFIN Burkina Faso completed its first year of activity with a strong team in Ouagadougou and the very first group of activators in the Centre Nord and Centre Ouest regions of Burkina Faso. There are more than 20 activators servicing more than 100 G50 groups and a total of 4,560 people registered to date on the UMVA platform and these figures are increasing day after day.

Normally, we publish Success Stories in our News section. Now we wish to ask for your support to turn human suffering into a Success Story of solidarity.

As a Netherlands-rooted company, we are familiar with the power of water, for the good and for the bad. Also recently, the Netherlands was hit by massive rains, floods and subsequent damages.

500.000 Burundian households connected to digital solutions.

In Burundi, only 6% of the population uses the internet, ranking as the lowest internet penetration rate worldwide. AUXFIN is changing this number quickly by offering digital technologies to the rural population. In 2022 AUXFIN Burundi has succeeded in reaching half a million people on a regular basis with digital solutions that contribute to their development.

Munezero Arlette and her family were once big spenders. For her, she liked to buy clothes all the time without a real need to do so. Every day she and her family spent a lot of money in various expenses. She then began to follow the finance training provided by Auxfin Burundi through the FinanceCoach app.

​For Nzibanora Monique having a kitchen garden is very useful for her family. Monique N. shares that from her kitchen garden, she sometimes sells vegetables at the market and uses the money to supplement her husband's income, which is often insufficient to meet the various needs of the household.