Bridging Gaps: Pay-it-forward Microloans

A graphic collage with several black africans seated in a room. A "G" set on its side frames a woman at the center of the photo. A logo in the top left reads "Bridging Gaps".

Solution

Country: Uganda 🇺🇬

Launch date: 2022

Focus Area: Providing support to financial barriers

Stage: Growth

Summary

Bridging Gaps is an award-winning German-Ugandan non-profit that empowers aspiring entrepreneurs from marginalized communities through a systemic solution of interest-free "pay-it-forward" microloans, social entrepreneurship training and local peer-to-peer mentorship, creating a positive cycle of self-sufficiency and community development.

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