A Success Story about Ssekabembe Roselyn

Ssekabembe Roselyn is one of change a life’s borrowers. Before change a life’s intervention, she was selling charcoal but on a very small scale and in a rented kiosk. 

She is so happy for change a life Uganda for having helped her change her life. After acquiring a loan from change a life’s micro financing project she was able to expand her Charcoal business when she bought just three more sucks of charcoal. Saving bits, with a commitment to grow her small business, she has raised money to acquire her own kiosk. 

She now uses two kiosks for her business, one for charcoal selling and the other as a market stall where she sells items like tomatoes eggplants onions, green paper, charcoal stoves among others. She has diversified her income avenues.

She can buy food for her children, pay school fees and buy other needs.

Her next plan is to stock fire wood in the new kiosk as an expansion of the fuel business.

Roselyn in her first  rented kiosk where she sells charcoal

Roselyn standing infront of her second kiosk.

By Nankinga Cate
Loans officer, CALU