30 years of lifting low-income communities out of poverty through innovative and impactful financial services— the story of FINCA Uganda 45-year-old Madina Namanda, a resident of Kitengeesa Trading Center in the Central District of Masaka in Uganda, must be what John Hatch, an American economist had in mind when he founded FINCA back in 1984.

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The Foundation for International Community Assistance, now commonly known as FINCA was founded by Mr. Hatch and Rupert Scofield as a Village Banking™ model- a concept that would enable poor Bolivian farmers with no collateral to access loans through a collective guarantee. Several years later, FINCA’s mission remains “alleviating poverty through lasting solutions that help people build as