UGANDA’S WEALTHIEST MAN TALKS PHILANTHROPY

CivSource Africa asked lawyer and writer Ivan Okuda to chat up Uganda’s wealthiest man on philanthropy and report verbatim. He did. Dr. Sudhir Ruparelia is the chairman of the Ruparelia Group, one of the biggest business conglomerates in East and Central Africa with 28 companies and over 8,000 employees. As the Covid-19 pandemic destabilizes health care systems and plunges economies into uncertainty and anxiety of a global recession, disrupting our normal flow of life, businesses have been hard hit. The Ruparelia Foundation has, despite the upheavals, put its foot forward through philanthropy. More