Top 40 SaaS Startup Investors in Uganda in May 2026

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• Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
• CompariSure — Custom, built-for-purpose service and sales chatbot solutions for financial services providers.
• Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.

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• Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
• Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
• Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

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• Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
• Dios Dental Clinic — Dios dental is a network of dental clinics which aims to bring affordable quality dental care. Their transparent pricing policy allows its clients to know their budget, with standard treatment and sterilization protocol. It was founded on March 1, 2016, and is headquartered in Rubaga, Uganda.
• Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.

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• Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
• Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
• Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa

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• Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
• maviance — Maviance is a German-based consulting (business and IT) and software development company that develops industry-specific for web and mobile applications for businesses and governments. It creates sustainable and customized solutions to meet the requirements of customers by combining its industry experience with solution-oriented skills of businessre-design, concept, project management, programming, and testing.Our commitment to excellence and sustainability is evident in suite of innovative and scalable smart mobile enterprise applications in industries like Microfinance, Metering, Insurance and Sales Automation. Each of our applications consists of a web-based back office server, mobile clients and APIs for SMS, mobile billing, mobile payment and integration into existing systems. Maviance serves clients in the financial services, telecommunications and public sectors, increasing productivity, reducing costs and improving their management capabilities. Founded in 2008, maviance GmbH is headquartered in Leipzig, Germany.
• Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.

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• REXIAL — REXIAL is automating direct debit by enabling merchants to collect recurring payments from their customers securely via ACH payments at a fraction of fees on credit or debit cards.
• ChapChap Africa — ChapChap Africa develops software that aims to help improve service delivery to under-served communities. ChapChap is a smartphone powered platform that’s helping small businesses stay afloat and thrive by introducing them to the digital age of doing business.
• XENO — XENO is an investment management platform that helps people to plan, save, and invest in financial goals. XENO was founded in 2016 and was headquartered in Kampala, Uganda.

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• Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
• Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
• Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.

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• Furaha — Welcome to Furaha Financial, purpose driven financing. We are a financial technology business which acts as a software-based intermediary platform.
• Jumbotail — Jumbotail is an operator of an online marketplace that simplifies food and grocery shopping.Jumbotail is a VC funded startup building an online marketplace for food and grocery, targeted at wholesale buyers. It also operates a marketplace that connects tens of thousands of these Kirana stores with brands and traders. The company offers a wholesuite of services including supply chain logistics, a mobile app for placing orders, integration with point-and-sales devices, and credit solutions to shop owners that can’t easily get a loan from banks.They offer a wide selection of high-quality staples, homecare, packaged foods, and personal care products from all the leading brands, and staples producers. Their vision is to organize the food and grocery ecosystem in India using technology, data science, and design. They are building products, platforms, and services for the next billion people of India, who have fundamentally different needs - access, language, selection, supply chain, financial, cultural, and the like. Their market potential is huge - in the order of hundreds of billions of dollars. They have a strong core team consisting of alumni from Stanford, CMU, IIT, BITS, etc. having several years of industry experience in companies like Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, BCG, Housing, and Grofers.They are reimagining and reengineering the food and grocery ecosystem through intelligent technology, intuitive design, and innovative business and supply chain models. They are a passionate team driven by their sense of purpose to solve a critical real-world problem. Each team member will have significant ownership of key components that go into the next-generation e-commerce, supply chain, demand generation, and credit technology platforms and services that they are building.
• FourTwoThree — FourTwoThree is an end-to-end, enterprise-grade solution for climate action and sustainable finance.

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• Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
• Sitara — Sewa Grih Rin provides affordable housing finance to the under-served low income households in urban and peri-urban locations.Incorporated in 2011, SEWA Grih Rin Limited was envisaged as a means for the under-served households to access affordable and formal housing finance in urban & peri-urban locations. We learnt that low-income householdsheld two facets of their life very close to their heart: they treasured the education of their children; and aspired to self-own a property, a home of their own.SEWA Grih Rin Limited’s work is aimed at directly improving the quality of life of informally employed households, especially their women members, by creating a tangible financial asset in their name. We provide an affordable alternative to those households whose credit capacity falls behind the widening financing gap given the informal nature of their employment.
• Light Microfinance — Light Microfinance is a non-banking finance company registered with the Reserve Bank of India. Headquartered at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Light Microfinance provides micro and meso finance products and services with gender and poverty-focused programs, targeting rural and peri-urban areas, with a specific focus on poor women. The company operates inGujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and is one of the fastest growing microfinance companies in India today.

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• Nawy — The ultimate real estate broker in Egypt. Browse areas, compounds, and properties by price, location, and amenities to find the perfect place.
• Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
• Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.

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• Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.

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• Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
• Ignite Reading — Ignite Reading delivers early literacy intervention based in the Science of Reading to help school districts achieve predictable, scalable gains in foundational reading skills. Our mission is simple: to ensure every child learns to read proficiently, ideally by the end of 1st grade when early intervention has the greatest long-term impact.
• American Journalism Project — The American Journalism Project is a new venture philanthropy organization dedicated to local news. By providing course-altering investments and venture support to civic news organizations, we are building a new public service media that is governed by, sustained by and looks like the public it serves.

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• Koolboks — Koolboks: solar-powered, financially accessible fridges with an integrated pay-as-you-go platform dedicated to making cooling accessible to all of Sub-Saharan Africa. Get a Koolboks refrigerator for as little as 25k Naira down payment today!
• 80 Acres Farms — FRESHER FOOD AWAITS! VIEW ALL PRODUCTS CHANGING FOOD FOR THE FRESHER Zero Pesticides Locally Grown Fresher Longer Sustainably Grown OUR STORY WHERE TO BUY Find In Store
• Oorja Development Solutions — Oorja is a project developer of solar PV systems to power livelihoods in emerging markets.

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• Andela — Unlock the power of global tech talent with Andela. Hire experienced professionals quickly and cost-effectively. Build your team from our robust network of skilled specialists spanning 175 countries. Our AI-powered platform ensures a 96% talent match success rate. Get started now and hire with confidence.
• Matta — Matta is a B2B platform offering a comprehensive, detailed marketplace for sourcing chemicals and materials efficiently and reliably
• Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.

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• Handraise — Handraise is a software development company that makes public relations professionals look like rock stars.Handraise allows brands and agencies, for the first time ever, to leverage the credibility of their earned media against the power of paid advertising - without needing an ad team. Easily deploy earned media ads on your own with no prioradvertising experience.Founded by Matt Allison in 2022 and is located in Austin, Texas.
• Fathom — An audiovisual recording service that integrates with both Zoom and Google Calendar.
• finally — Finally is the easiest way for businesses to manage their bookkeeping, accounting & finance. Learn more today.

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• Cavex — Cavex uses digital finance and innovative technologies to drive environmental and socio-economic benefits for the people and communities most in need.
• WIC Capital — Capital investissement - Gender investing - Gender initiative - Impact investing - Early stage - PME - SME - Equity - Fund manager - Empower women
• Dhamana Guarantee — An East African focused credit guarantee company whose principal business is to guarantee local currency debt obligations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda.

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• Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
• Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
• Plural — Smarter, Faster, Future-Ready Policy Strategy. Plural transforms how enterprises and organizations anticipate and act on legislation. Our AI-powered platform delivers accurate bill analysis, policy insights, and stakeholder intelligence so you can stay ahead of risk, seize opportunity, and shape outcomes. See How It Works Book A Demo Trusted By Deepen Your State & Federal Legislative

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• Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
• Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
• REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.

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• Juno Medical — Juno Care is a whole-family healthcare platform that provides modern open-access care for the entire family’s day-to-day needs including pediatrics, women’s health, adult primary care, and same-day services.
• Rebels — Rebelstork was born to make Parenting Lighter. We are the largest tech-driven marketplace for baby gear in North America - diverting overstock and retailer returned baby gear away from landfills and into the homes of customers at a fraction of the retail price.
• Stickerbox — The first voice-powered creative tool that instantly transforms any idea into a sticker that you can color, share and collect!

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• BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
• Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
• ETAP — ETAP is a digital insurance application that allows you to set up your car insurance in just 90 seconds.

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• Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
• Mvxchange — MVX makes freight shipping easier and more coordinated for companies of any size by bringing the whole booking and deployment process online. We simplify Africa’s end-to-end import and export trade transactions by aggregating and organizing 7+ services through 1 digital channel.
• Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.

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• Ecoligo — With ecoligo's sustainable investments - you benefit twice: protect the climate & receive attractive returns.
• Agros — Agros exist to make farming economically viable and environmentally sustainable. The company provides farmers with carbon-reducing and income-increasing products and services, from input to market. Their unique ecosystem approach aggregates different low-carbon technologies, bundled with affordable finance, insurance, advisory and market access.Agros’ mission is to double the income of millions of farmers while reducing 100 megatons of annual carbon emissions.
• MyJouleBox — MyJouleBox offers a solution for solar professionals in Africa to offer leased solar installations to their customers.

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• Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.

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• Carble — We provide carbon insetting technology to tropical commodity buyers and cash incentives to farmers that protect the forest. Our satellite-powered platform monitors carbon emissions, allowing for deforestation-free farming to be rewarded at scale.
• Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
• Forested — Agroforestry Enterprise

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• Fasset — Fasset is an all-in-one financial super app that allows people and businesses to receive money, invest, earn, and make payments from anywhere in the world.
• Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
• Inventive AI — Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & Questionnaire Response Management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in sales response workflows.

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• Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
• Good Nature Agro — Their priority is to generate lasting income with small-scale farmers. They build local community leaders into qualified Private Extension Agents (PEAs) who oversee and train farmers throughout the growing season. They support PEAs to provide frequent trainings and personalized recommendations on how their growers can make their field healthier andmore productive. PEAs promote improved farm practices and deliver a farmer-friendly loan of seeds and additional inputs. At harvest, Good Nature is a guaranteed market for the certified legume seed that their growers produce. Choosing to produce these high-value crops over traditional cash crops - maize and cotton - more than doubles their income.

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• Furaha — Welcome to Furaha Financial, purpose driven financing. We are a financial technology business which acts as a software-based intermediary platform.

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• Confido — Confido is a software company that provides financial operations automation for consumer packaged goods brands. Confido helps CPG brands save time and money by automating cash applications, fighting deductions, and tracking trade costs in a platform. The company is based in New York, New York.
• Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
• Rainforest — Rainforest focuses on providing software platforms for payment processing. Rainforest is headquartered in Atlanta, United States.

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• Ensibuuko — Digital banking software for savings groups, SACCOs, and microfinance institutions. Join 21K+ organizations using Ensibuuko across Africa.
• WealthBar — CI Direct Investing makes it easy to access financial advice. CI Direct Trading is the best online investment platform for self-directed trading.

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• FarmWorks — FarmWorks is an agricultural technology company that gives farmers access to farm inputs as well as a market for the produce .FarmWork is to unlock agricultural potential by building clusters of mid-sized farms while working with thousands of small-holder farmers and establishing direct linkage to local and global markets.
• Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
• Spouts of Water — SPOUTS mission is to manufacture and distribute ceramic water filters to provide everyone in Uganda with safe water.

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• Billboxx — Manage payables, receivables, financing and banking in one platform.
• mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
• REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.

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• TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
• clinicpesa — Your Instant Secure Medical Mobile Bank In Your Palm.
• Firstbase — Equip remote and hybrid workers for success across the entire employee journey with the Firstbase platform. Firstbase powers a complete equipment lifecycle, fusing SaaS automation with world-class physical operations. Simplify onboarding, streamline offboarding, centralize and simplify asset management and warehousing, and build IT sustainability. Optimize HR experiences, flex your workplace services, and maximize every asset with Firstbase.

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• EcoNetix — We help companies reduce emissions, offset with high-integrity carbon projects, and communicate impact transparently to achieve compliance certainty, climate
• Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
• Circadian Technologies GmbH — AI-driven VPP unlocking revenue for telecom towers.

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• Amfri Farms — Amfri farms produce frozen products and herbs and spices that include frozen apple banana puree, frozen mango pulp and dice, chilli, vanilla, coffee, lemon balm, dill,  and turmeric. They also export jackfruit, avocados, Irish potatoes, pumpkins, and sweet potatoes.
• Laboremus Uganda — Laboremus Uganda delivers digital onboarding and KYC solutions for banks and fintechs in Africa.
• Sausage King 3000 Uganda — Sausage King 3000 Uganda offers fresh and processed beef products to all income groups in Uganda. The company aims to produce quality meat products on the African Continent and to educate consumers about the value of sausages as a nutritious food option. In addition to serving local markets, Sausage King 3000 Uganda also serves international hotelsand supermarkets.

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• Wellth — Improve quality scores, reduce high cost utilization, address health equity, and improve member satisfaction by using the right incentive at the right time to create life-changing healthy habits through Wellth.
• Floworks AI — Deploy AI agents that prospect, personalise emails, handle replies and book meetings 24/7. Floworks AI replaces repetitive SDR work so your team closes more deals.
• Haqdarshak — Made with Framer

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• CapCar — CapCar is the first actor of the used vehicle to offer individuals cars and services of quality, without the commissions usually taken by the professionals. For you sellers, this means receiving 20% ​​more for your car than at a dealership, with a sale in about 2-3 weeks. For you buyers, it is the guarantee of having a quality vehicle havingsuccessfully passed our 200 control points, delivered at home for a price 5% lower than the traditional professional prices.
• CrowdSec — CrowdSec is an open-source and collaborative security stack leveraging the crowd power. Analyze behaviors, respond to attacks & share signals across the community. Join the community and le's make the Internet safer, together.
• Ponicode — AI-powered unit testing solutions for all developers. Accelerate your code quality journey with the right tools. Monitor, write and review tests faster than ever before. Now available for Javascript, Typescript, Python and Java.

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• Axial3D — Leading the way with the latest 3D imaging, models, and devices
• afriQloud — AfriQloud provides a white-labeled cloud computing solution to telecom operators, internet service providers, system integrators, and managed information technology service providers.
• Sonarworks — SoundID Reference software calibrates your speakers and studio headphones, so you can trust that every mix will translate.

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• CAMPVS — CAMPVS enables artists of all genres to reach a local and national audience with our brand partners and talent showcases.
• AuDIGENT — AuDIGENT is an audience intelligence platform that provides brands with actionable data, analytics and insights that optimize the targeting, engagement and ROI of online, mobile and social video ads while opening up new revenue streams for artists and other social influencers. AuDIGENT's platform allows brands to discover, monitor and targetaudiences that drive media performance. AuDIGENT's platform empowers artists and influencers to tap into the tools and technology needed to monetize their social influence and fan engagement. AuDIGENT's executives, data scientists, developers and operations team are in New York, Philadelphia and London. For more information visit AuDIGENT.com
• Rokk3r — Rokk3r is a strategic holding company that invests in creating, acquiring and integrating companies, leveraging exponential technologies to achieve maximum social impact, value and returns.

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• Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.

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• Varthana — With the availability of education & school loans, financing education has become easier. Apply for instant education loan with Varthana today.
• Khan Bank — Khan Bank is a universal bank and a customer of FMO.
• AMK Microfinance Institution — AMK’s commitment to social performance has been absolute. AMK has developed a comprehensive social performance management framework, which ensures that the organization stays focusing on its mission to assist large numbers of poor people. As of December 2016, over 2,300 staffs serve almost 600,000 clients in nearly 13,000 villages across Cambodia.This outreach represents 89% of all villages.