• Apophia has a business of designing and making sweaters using a knitting machine. She wants to expand her business by adding an employee and knitting machine. She has future plans to construct a shop where she can run her knitting operation and sell her sweaters and yarns.

Kanombe, Kisoro District, Uganda
Organisation : Kisoro District, Uganda

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$185.00 of $610.00 goal

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About The Project

$610 needed to purchase more materials and to pay for rent for her knitting business
$125 contributed by Apophia towards her project


Apophia used the initial investment to buy her own knitting machine so she no longer will have to rent one. This has increased her profit margin and she is seeing her business income grow. She is providing her community the opportunity to buy sweaters locally without having to travel or pay transport fees for these goods. With future investments she would like to buy another machine so she can add an employee to her operation. She has a goal of opening her own shop to sell her sweaters and yarns, and with space large enough to run a knitting school to train others how to make sweaters.



Paying it Forward

Apophia has a goal to start another project and open a school where she will teach others to make sweaters. She will pay it forward by offering an opportunity to others  in her community to learn a trade.

Backstory

Apophia lives with her husband, Charles, and their five children. Four of the children are in school so the income growth from her sweater business helps with paying school tuition. Charles grows and sells Irish potatoes. Like others in her community there are the challenges of a poor road network, long distances to medical centers and no electricity. The community works together to build pathways which helps in transporting  harvested crops from the fields to market centers.

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Location Information

  • Location : Kanombe, Kisoro District, Uganda
  • Formatted Address : Kanombe, Uganda
  • City : Kanombe
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  • Country : Uganda

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  • Created By : Mark Newland
  • Published On : Oct 5, 2021, 9:35 AM
  • Funding Ends : Dec 31, 1969, 4:00 PM
  • Category : Sewing
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  • Description : Apophia lives with her husband, Charles, and their five children. Four of the children are in school so the income growth from her sweater business helps with paying school tuition. Charles grows and sells Irish potatoes. Like others in her community there are the challenges of a poor road network,...  more

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