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The problem we refuse to accept

Uganda, frankly, should be thriving. The country sits atop some of the most fertile land on the planet, receives more than enough sunshine to power a small continent, and is home to the youngest, fastest-growing population in East Africa.

It has deep, sophisticated indigenous knowledge of how to grow, build, conserve and care — knowledge that academics have been enthusiastically rediscovering for decades.

And yet. Structural barriers of poverty, underemployment and environmental degradation have conspired to keep millions of Ugandans from accessing their own remarkable potential.

Kebulan Cycle was founded in the belief that these barriers are not permanent features of the landscape. They are problems, and problems, given the right tools, the right capital, the right strategy, and the right people, can be solved.

of Ugandan youth (15–35) are unemployed or underemployed (UBOS 2022)
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of registered businesses are owned by women, despite women comprising 53% of the population
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tonnes of solid waste is generated in Uganda every single day, less than 10% formally managed (NEMA 2022)
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of Ugandans rely on charcoal and firewood for cooking, contributing to 28,000 deaths per year from indoor air pollution
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unit housing deficit nationally; 62% of urban dwellers live in informal settlements (UN-Habitat 2022)
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most climate-vulnerable nation on Earth — Uganda's farmers are already losing yields to erratic weather patterns (ND-GAIN 2023)
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