Lubaga Residents Praise Youth Wealth Creation Programme for Boosting Small Businesses

What the report says

Residents in Lubaga Municipality, Uganda, say support from the Presidential Youth Wealth Creation Programme has helped many small businesses expand and improved household incomes, according to Nile Post. The article says more than 600 people in the area have received assistance so far through the initiative, which is being channelled via the State House Comptroller, Jane Barekye.

Beneficiaries cited in the report include chapati makers, potato-chip vendors and other small-scale entrepreneurs. The support provided has included start-up capital and business equipment, with residents describing it as useful for strengthening their trading activities and helping them support their families. The programme is intended to help people establish new enterprises or grow existing ones.

Programme coordinator Faizal Ndase visited Lubaga to assess how beneficiaries were doing and said he was encouraged to see many using the support to build their businesses. He also urged recipients to manage the aid responsibly, expand their operations and create jobs for others in the community.

The report presents the programme as part of the government’s broader youth and economic empowerment efforts. It also notes that beneficiaries thanked President Yoweri Museveni and Barekye for backing their businesses. More broadly, such initiatives are often framed by Ugandan officials as a way to promote small enterprise growth and local employment, especially in urban communities with many informal traders.