Is the chair person of the Akugoba yakuwa amagezy group.
Her group has existed for four years and had loans with THP for three years.
They first did the VCA workshop in 2001 in August.
Before THP she says each person was just in their own homes by themselves.
Now they are a group of ten women and are going to expand.
The expansion of the group was slowed by the husbands of some of the women who worried about whether THP is genuine.
They have had continuous VCA workshops and training, the men are now convinced and the group will be able to expand.
She says that all the group members have income generating projects and they have all taken loans as a group and they have all repaid the loans with interest 100 percent.
They took 2M Uganda shillings in the first loan cycle as a group which they repaid and they have now completed three loan cycles.
The interest rate here in Uganda is anywhere up to 48 percent THP loans are set to 20 percent interest in order for the capital base to be maintained as there is 10 percent inflation.
Maragret speaks of they are now all empowered to handle money as previously they worked all day and never even handled money now they have 3 meals a day and they dress well and they are really happy and they are proud.
And now they have the vision that by 2008 the entire regions prosperity will be transformed.
They proudly show us their group project which is a large spacious piggery with rather happy looking pigs in it and she says they have a breeding program now so they do not need to buy pigs themselves.
I have to say the conditions the pigs are kept in are remarkably good. The women care for their animals and the piggery is much larger per animal than many I have seen in Switzerland and there is no smell.
There are many different individual projects here as well as the group projects.
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