VICOBA – Changing hearts, minds and savings accounts
VICOBA Plus is the brainchild of David Clemy, a Ugandan leader helping to transform communities across Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, and DRC Goma. In partnership with African Road, this training has equipped women, men, and children with saving, banking, and business tools.
BUT it doesn’t just teach these life skills, it changes mindsets. The magic of VICOBA Plus is that it helps people to dream bigger, to move beyond a mindset of ‘need’ to a focus on what they already have available to them. This shift results in empowerment, positive attitudes, bigger and better savings and real change in the lives of communities and individuals.
From Slum Living to Business Owner
One inspirational example is Mary, a woman living in Sinai slum in Nairobi, Kenya. After completing VICOBA training, she started a baby care business in her local community. Mary has established a strong reputation for cleanliness, safety, and nutrition. The business is now thriving, and she has saved $240 in only five months.Mary’s dream is to buy land to start a farming business.
VICOBA Plus, like African Road, is fuelled and energized by action that creates long-term, sustainable change, moving away from aid and towards empowerment.