She started a fundraising drive to raise a modest capital for the vendors who have since found themselves without any money. Namboka ensured that every donation is celebrated, and every shilling accounted for.
Her passion for women’s rights is unequivocal. Her commitment to ensuring the female vendor's plight is heard, remains unmatched. Esther Namboka will be found almost everywhere issues of the female vendor are being discussed. It, therefore, didn’t come as a surprise that she would remind all and sundry of the female vendor’s plight during the lockdown.
She started a fundraising drive to raise a modest capital for the vendors who have since found themselves without any money. Namboka ensured that every donation is celebrated, and every shilling accounted for. “The joy and happiness beneath my mask can’t be defined in words. When I see the women vendors smile because of each one of you who have donated to them, I say thank you so much,” she notes when a donation is made.
Namboka gives a preamble into why each vendor is deserving of the modest capital, then quickly goes on to thank the donor. “A woman vendor, whose son recently got electrocuted while they were living in an incomplete and shanty house, will receive UGX 100,000 startup capital,” she explains. “This has been made possible by Harriet Generosa who donated UGX 135,000; we shall reserve the 35,000 for another woman.”
She also tells a story of a vendor who despite getting government food, still needed help getting back on her feet and be able to meet her family’s financial needs. “This woman was stuck at home with no capital. She received food from the Government but it all got finished because she has children. She also struggles to educate her children,” she explains. In explaining and accounting for every donation, Namboka’s fundraising efforts have attracted even more donations many of which are anonymous.
By CivSource Team