East Africa Affiliates
Regional Overview
Partners Worldwide was birthed in Kenya when a group of North American and local businesspeople asked the question: “How can businesspeople be a part of the solution to end poverty?”
Today, the local business affiliates in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda have grown into a regional network of over 3,000 Christian businesspeople and professionals. East African business people desire to effect change in the lives of their families, employees, clients, and the marketplace. Since 2004, East Africa has hosted four Partners Worldwide Regional Business Conferences, drawing hundreds of people together to spark synergies of culture and calling in places like Kampala and Nairobi.
Uganda - Amaranth Project
Mbale
In the eastern town of Mbale, Uganda, a small co-operative of over 100 small-holder farmers and a women’s group produce and market goods such as bread and porridge from the “miracle grain”, amaranth. Since 2008, local and international partners have mentored the farmers and women in agricultural production, nutritional care, bakery skills, and business development. The co-operative is excited to expand, and seeks to establish a value-chain that efficiently moves the grain from the farm, to the value-added production process, to the exciting growing market of grocers, schools, clinics, and hotels.
Stories
Miracle grain links farmers and bakers
Sunday July 25, 2010
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What do a Ugandan Christian university graduate and a Muslim woman have in common? The answer is grain amaranth. By engaging local farmers and a women’s micro business, two Ugandan entrepreneurs are leading their community toward better nutrition and a step out of poverty.
During his last semester at Makere University, agriculture and business student Innocent Muhabwa walked into the Partners Worldwide office in Kampala. He was in search of any volunteer opportunity, for an idealist like him, to tackle poverty and malnutrition through business. With a smile that would light up a room, he quickly connected with Mannu Bakery, a microbusiness led by women in Mbale, to strengthen their value-added production of the miracle grain, amaranth.
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