Embibo Foundation was founded by Kabibi Florence Tumwebaze in 2017 as an Initiative to help rural household women and youth who were part of her Family Prayer Fellowship Cell to address widespread poverty. Support to Cell members included the provision of small seed grants to enable them start self-help projects.
Miss Kabibi Florence Tumwebaze a believer in Christian teachings about planting a seed had faith in empowering these rural women and youth with small amounts of capital just as a seed for planting is always small but when it germinates, it produces big yields, went on to fundraise from family and friends a tune of USD100,000,
The initial cohort of 30,000 women and youths with no income generating activities at all were enrolled and each given seed capital of about USD3 and have discovered that about 40% of the cohort members reported good progress.
The good progress propelled Miss Kabibi Florence Tumwebaze to register the Initiative into a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) to empower women and youth sustainably by providing seed capital for their small businesses and relevant business skills and subsequently EMBIBO FOUNDATION was incorporated under the Laws of the Republic of Uganda on 9th February 2022 vide Company Registration No. 80020003489658 and was duly registered with the National Bureau for Non-Governmental Organizations vide Registration No.6004 dated 4th March 2022 and is permitted to operate as a Non-Governmental Organization under Permit No. 7315 dated 4th March 2022.
Initially a cohort of 30,000 women and youths with no income generating activities at all were enrolled and each given seed capital of about USD $3. After a review of the activity, it was observed that over 40% of the cohort members reported good progress. The good progress propelled the Founder to register the Initiative into a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that would empower women and youth sustainably by providing seed capital for their small businesses and relevant business skills and subsequently EMBIBO FOUNDATION was incorporated under the Laws of the Republic of Uganda on 9th February 2022 (Company Registration No. 80020003489658) and was duly registered with the National Bureau for Non-Governmental Organizations (Registration No.6004) and is permitted to operate as a Non-Governmental Organization under Permit No. 7315 dated 4th March 2022.
The target groups for EMBIBO FOUNDATION comprises of rural households particularly women, out of school living parents as well as young girls who become victims of early marriage and unwanted pregnancies. The Foundation‘s goals include empowering the less privileged women and youth (rural household-based women and youth) with specific business enterprise skills that enable them to learn and earn and giving them enabling seed capital for reduction of household poverty.
Apart from economically empowering targeted women and youth, the Foundation further aims at mitigating gender-based violence, reducing/eliminating constraints that hinder women from accessing antenatal care, addressing issues of child protection, especially girl child support, addressing social protection issues especially the elderly women, promoting sustainable agriculture and environmental protection, supporting and working with Christian ministries that promote Christian teachings based on hard work, culture of saving and self-sustenance as well as targeting refugee women and youth in Rwamwanja Refugee Camp and the host community.
