Saturday March 3rd 2018 will forever be an auspicious date in the life of Nkuru-Nziza Foundation, because it was the day that the first intake of students and their parents attended the Orientation Day, to mark the opening of the Nkuru Business and Vocational Training College. Twelve students and their…
Godfrey is a 17yr old lad from Bakijjulula, the village in Mityana district where John’s dad lives, and where John is setting up the Vocational Training College (Nkuru BVTC). Education-wise he managed to complete his S4 exams, which are the equivalent to GCSE’s, but he didn’t continue on to A…
Jane was one of the first people to receive a loan from the Missing Link Microfinance project when it launched in the summer of 2016. Based out of the house of John’s dad, in Bakijjulula near Mityana, where the Nkuru Vocational Training College is now being developed, the microfinance scheme…
In February 2017, the first Dragon’s Den competition was held in Bakijjulula. Open to all microfinance scheme members, it was an opportunity for individuals to pitch an idea to the ‘dragons’ and hope to come away with a pot of money that they could use to make that idea a…
