Uganda Finance Trust and CEO Anne Nakawunde celebrated last week the issue of its Banking Licence by the Ugandan Central Bank :
" It all started with a group of women. Driven by the dream of financial freedom, they carried the hopes of other women and many low income people in Uganda that someday a small microfinance institution would usher many into a life of plenty ", according to an article in the Ugandan press.
Farming Sea Cucumbers in Malagasy Villages
Blue Ventures’ project builds on research by the Universities of Belgium and Mons, in a partnership with the Malagasy University of Toliara’s Institute of Fisheries and Marine Science, which have developed a patented method of sea cucumber hatchery reproduction.
In 2009, these universities worked with a couple of local Malagasy entrepreneurs to develop a pilot sea cucumber-production business named Madagascar Holothurie SA (MHSA).
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