Our Vision is to see people in all nations empowered to create a bright future through their own strength and abilities.
Our Mission is to run a low-cost, accessible Kick-Start investment program for individuals in or at risk of severe financial need. We identify entrepreneurs and provide them with the funding, training, and support necessary to start their own business. Once the business is ready to repay the Kick-Start funding, the money will be re-invested in another local entrepreneur of the new business owner's choosing. This creates an ongoing cycle of investment in the local community.
When I first visited Uganda, I met so many passionate people full of life and potential. We shared with each other our lives and I listened to their plans of how to change their circumstances. This deeply touched my heart and changed my life completely. Inspired by my visit, I started the movement
Dignity & Hope in 2015. I decided then to take an active part in fighting poverty, and believe that all nations can rise and to create a bright future through their own strength.
I’m very humbled...
Before Naume became an entrepreneur in 2016, she was unable to feed her family on a daily basis and did not have the money to cover basic medical needs, provide for a safe home for herself and her family or send her children to school.
Naume applied for a Kick-Start Investment and presented her ideas, explaining why she believed she would succeed in what she planned to do. After our assessment, we provided the funds to start her business with a very small KickStart of US$ 187. (Read more)
