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What we do

Create. Empower.
Transform.

Three initiatives, one line running through them: the money and the doors we have should not stop with us.

Create

Skills, space and a first customer

The hardest part of starting is not ambition — it is the first opening. Ayarda runs its own fashion, makeup and events business, and we use it as a door: young people learn on real jobs, with real clients, and leave with work they can show.

Run from Loy Plaza, Kisaasi, alongside the business itself.

  • Skills days in makeup, tailoring, décor and event set-up
  • Learning on live jobs — paid, supervised work on Ayarda events
  • Introductions to suppliers, clients and the women already trading
Empower

5% of every job, given back

On every job Ayarda does, 5% of the proceeds goes to supporting women and youth. It is decided before the work starts, not after the profit is counted — which is why it happens even in a slow month.

It goes where it is actually needed: stock, a machine, rent for a stall, transport to a market, a child's fees so a mother can keep trading.

  • Direct support for stock, tools, rent and transport
  • End-of-year giving to people God lays on our hearts
  • Grants from what the annual fundraiser raises
Transform

Her Rise, Her Rules, Her Rules

Our annual fundraiser. One afternoon to dine, worship, honour women whose businesses are making the world better, and raise real money for them in front of people who can open doors.

This year: UGX 50 million through ticket sales, to support 10 women-owned businesses.

See the 2026 event
  • Recognition — the women are honoured publicly, by name
  • Support — needs they have shared with us, met by the room
  • Connection — companies, churches and customers in one place

Who we back

The women we are looking for

Not the biggest business in the room. The one whose success is already being shared.

She is actually trading

A real business with customers — however small. A stall, a salon, a kitchen, a workshop, a shop on a veranda.

Others depend on it

She employs someone, trains someone, feeds a household that is not only hers, or carries a child through school.

She does it quietly

The work is not done for applause, and usually nobody has ever said thank you for it. We would like to.

Nominate a woman

How support reaches her

From a ticket to a shop shelf

We keep this deliberately short, because every extra step is money that does not arrive.

Step one

You give

A ticket, a sponsored seat, a table or a direct gift on mobile money.

Step two

We verify the need

Each woman tells us what she actually needs. We check the business is real and the need is honest.

Step three

It is handed over

Support goes to the business — stock, equipment, rent — and we keep in touch to see what it did.

Put your weight behind one of them

A standard seat is UGX 100,000. For many of these women, that is the month's stock.

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