Our Team

Sharon Tumukunde is the Field Officer. Sharon has a certificate in hairdressing entrepreneurship and she has worked with lots of women in the field.

Sharon cares about women empowerment with much emphasis in areas of finance, social justice, and business counseling.

Sharon has tried small businesses and failed due to the lack of enough capital like most of the target clients that the company is serving. Most of the businesses she has tried including vending mobile money, running a local small restaurant in the slums of Kisenyi, Mbarara City, selling vegetables and fruits.

Sharon is currently working with Simpsons Financial Solutions, and she owns a private local salon where she has employed three people to earn a living.

Kabanyana Josephine Kamugisha is the co-founding Coordinator of Simpsons Financial Solutions Ltd.

She graduated from Makerere University with a Bachelors’s degree in social sciences, She specialized in gender and development and has always focused on empowering the girl child and oppressed women.

She promotes gender equality and equity because of her family background where girls/women were not given equal rights compared to boys/men.

She volunteered at the American refugee committee in Nakivale refugee settlement Uganda working in the protection department whereby her role was based on creating awareness on the effects of gender-based violence. She helped the victims of gender-based violence by giving them guidance and counseling on how to overcome fear and trauma.

She later worked at Capital friendly whole sellers and distributors of Unilever products as the reconciliations officer in Naalya-Kampala. She was later transferred to the Mbarara branch as the chief cashier where she got more experience in managing finances and thought about empowering small business owners.

Josephine believes the world would become a better place once women and men have the same economic opportunities if we can all wear the same and the right shoes to conquer the world.

Simpson Kamugisha is the founding Director of Simpsons Financial Solutions Ltd. His life experience made him develop a program to challenge financial discrimination in order to end extreme poverty among low-income families.

Simpson was born in extreme poverty and in abuse. He was an angry teenager with a lot of unaddressed feelings growing up as a child but was very lucky to study with the help of government sponsorships and community contributions.

He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Nkumba University, Uganda. Simpson turned his anger into positive community engagements and developments such as singing political songs against domestic violence and working with children as a volunteer helping some of the Charitable Organizations.

He later, was awarded a scholarship by the Mastercard Foundation at Michigan State University 2016/2018. He joined the School of Social Work where he graduated with a Master of Social Work, specializing in Organization and Community Leadership.

Simpson believes that every life has an equal value. He has a good understanding of gender and income inequalities in both low and developed countries since he has been able to work in both Uganda and United States of America.  His combined background in both financing and Social Work has a direct application to this effort.

Simpson has always worked hard to minimize the above dynamics in order to see healthy families and communities by advocating for vulnerable and oppressed populations, most especially voiceless children and women who are living in poverty.

A friend of mine once said: “If everyone can do everything, no one can make a living.”  This project is designed to break that characteristic of economically stressed areas, by training and supporting individuals who wish to work their way out of poverty by specializing in specific businesses.

Agnes was awarded a Certificate in Public Diplomacy from the University of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2018. This was after being awarded BOMSS from Nkumba University, Uganda 2010.

Agnes is currently working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Malaysia where she has served as the Executive assistant since 2012 to date. In this position, she has assisted with Planning, Organizing, and Coordinating meetings and seminars with various embassies of the accredited countries and outside our jurisdiction as much as other stakeholders like potential investors who pick interest in Uganda.

From 2011-2012, Agnes worked for the Office of the Prime Minister, Uganda as the Administrative Assistant. She coordinated with the subordinates and the rest of the staff during the execution of duties. She could as well share information and rule of procedures for improved technical compliance and timely accomplishment of tasks.

Agnes has worked with different groups of people through the foreign affairs job. This has given her a chance to learn more about low-income families in different countries and a need to support them financially which is why she accepted to work hand in hand with Simpsons Financial Solutions Ltd as a Board Member. Here, Agnes shares her both local and international work experience to make an impact in the lives of small business owners that Simpsons Financial Solutions Ltd is supporting in Mbarara City, Uganda.

Mary Amony Ochama currently working with Finn Church Aid (FCA) Uganda as a Psychosocial Officer. FCA is a Humanitarian NGO serving Refugees from the countries of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, and Southern Sudan.

She graduated from Makerere University with a Bachelors’s degree in Development Studies and a Master’s Degree in Women and Gender Studies. She also holds a post-graduate in Management Science from Open University (UK). She has worked in both the Humanitarian and Development field with a focus on the less vulnerable in Society.

She has a passion for ensuring that the needs of the less privileged are met. Women, children, and the Elderly in our society have been neglected and sometimes the meager resources availed by the state to help out have been taken by a few corrupt individuals.

She works with Refugees in southwestern Uganda where she counsels and encourages those that have had to abandon their home country to start a new life in another. With this comes traumatic experiences that she has had to handle and women continue to bear the brunt of the suffering, as some have lost their spouses to war, others simply abandoned and the household burden rests on their shoulders

After University, she worked at Reach Out Mbuya, HIV/AIDS Initiative, a project that restores Hope to thousands of the urban poor in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. During her service, She was able to identify the less privileged within the community and linked them for medical service. Priority was given to expectant mothers who could not afford ARVs to ensure that their unborn babies are delivered free from HIV. She also offered encouragement to women whose husbands had abandoned them after discovering they were HIV positive. To ensure that household incomes of the women improved; she enrolled them in tailoring and beads making training that the project offered free of charge to these less privileged mothers

During University, She had the opportunity to work at Bweyale with the Internally Displaced people who were affected by the lord resistance war in Northern Uganda. She witnessed the plight of women as many of the men were captured and recruited into the rebel group. With the small material and financial support given, women’s resilience was built, and were able to support their families in particular children and the elderly in the absence of the family heads.

Mary believes that the empowerment of women both socially (social capital is important) and financially not only improves the lives of women but the entire family and has a trickle-down effect on the community around. She knows this because of the resilience women display in the face of adversity.

Pius Ayebare is a Financial Accountant at National Social Security Fund (NSSF), Uganda’s National Savings Scheme. He was appointed to this position in April 2020. He has a wealth of experience spanning over a period of 8 years in the Financial Services Industry.

Previously, Pius worked at East African Development Bank as an Accountant in 2019 and Barclays Bank Uganda Limited (now ABSA) as a Treasury Middle Office Analyst and Financial Reporting Manager between 2014 and 2019.

Pius started his career in 2012 with Equity Bank Uganda Limited as a Banking Officer and later moved to Finance department as an Accounts Assistant until July 2014.

Pius is a qualified Accountant with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA UK) and the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda (ICPAU). He also holds a First Class Honors Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration (Accounting Major) from Makerere University, Kampala.

Simpson Kamugisha is the founding Director of Simpsons Financial Solutions Ltd. His life experience made him develop a program to challenge financial discrimination in order to end extreme poverty among low-income families.

Simpson was born in extreme poverty and in abuse. He was an angry teenager with a lot of unaddressed feelings growing up as a child but was very lucky to study with the help of government sponsorships and community contributions.

He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Nkumba University, Uganda. Simpson turned his anger into positive community engagements and developments such as singing political songs against domestic violence and working with children as a volunteer helping some of the Charitable Organizations.

He later, was awarded a scholarship by the Mastercard Foundation at Michigan State University 2016/2018. He joined the School of Social Work where he graduated with a Master of Social Work, specializing in Organization and Community Leadership.

Simpson believes that every life has an equal value. He has a good understanding of gender and income inequalities in both low and developed countries since he has been able to work in both Uganda and United States of America.  His combined background in both financing and Social Work has a direct application to this effort.

Simpson has always worked hard to minimize the above dynamics in order to see healthy families and communities by advocating for vulnerable and oppressed populations, most especially voiceless children and women who are living in poverty.

A friend of mine once said: “If everyone can do everything, no one can make a living.”  This project is designed to break that characteristic of economically stressed areas, by training and supporting individuals who wish to work their way out of poverty by specializing in specific businesses.