CPA is pleased to support ‘Five Talents’, as they partner with the Mothers’ Union of Uganda, empowering families and communities to develop savings groups, making life more sustainable for many.

Five Talents (www.fivetalents.org.uk)

Five Talents is a UK-registered Christian charity with the mission to transform lives through social and economic empowerment

Their vision is much like our own, to eradicate extreme poverty by enabling communities to be the agents of their own change, restoring human dignity and helping families to build sustainable livelihoods.

They do this by inviting families in poor communities to join savings groups where they can learn, earn, save and eventually invest back into their own small businesses.

Savings Groups

The savings groups are community owned, led, and managed. They are supported by trained, community-based volunteer facilitators, and consist of around 25 members. Following a few months of saving and training together, members pool their savings into a communal fund from which members can take loans. Members often invest their loans to start or expand their own business. No external loan capital is provided, and all loan interest is returned to the Group’s fund and shared out as dividends at the end of the year. Savings Groups are inclusive, open to adults of all faiths, ethnicities, gender and age.

The New Project.

The new project is supported by CPA and headed up by Rev Barbara.

There are four participating dioceses based in the north, east, west and central areas of Uganda.

The programme includes 40 Savings groups in total, with 1077 participants.

Programmes are launched with envisioning sessions, followed by the training of trainers and facilitators. Facilitators then help newly established community groups to recognise their many gifts, talents and resources, and support them to formulate a vision for the changes they want to see in their community.

Once the groups begin to save, members are provided with tools to help them understand how to establish and grow their own businesses, in turn enabling them to generate income to pay for things that matter to them like school costs and medicine.