Empowering communities to build a sustainable future

MAPLE Uganda develops and provides place-based education in financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development to village savings and loan groups and youth groups in rural areas of Uganda.

MAPLE provides hundreds of people living in rural regions of Uganda the financial tools and skills needed to achieve culturally-significant goals and values. We do that by co-designing community-managed financial services, such as community-managed savings groups and credit systems linked to more formal financial institutions, and by working with savings groups and youth groups to develop and manage micro-businesses in the agricultural, engineering, and environmental sectors.

As an innovative Ugandan educational organization connected to professors, researchers, students, development practitioners, engineers, and ecologists around the world, we work closely with rural communities in Uganda to co-design, implement, and continuously test and improve new approaches to livelihood development that they aspire to, and are willing and able to sustain on their own.

MAPLE currently works with over 60 villages in Northern Uganda, with the rural community of Lira and surrounding villages, and in the Mt. Elgon region in Eastern Uganda, with Mbale and surrounding districts of Sironko, Bulambuli, Kapchorwa, Bududa, Manafwa and Budaka. 

Uganda Programs