by adminusr | Oct 25, 2017 | community foundation
#UkamaCommunityFoundation #ChristmasDrive2017 We are doing our biggest Christmas Ever this year at Ukama. We have pledged to do Christmas Parties with gifts for around 340 children in Vrygrond! We have some amazing sponsors that are sorting the gifts out for us but we...
by adminusr | Oct 20, 2017 | packing solutions
Ukama is a Shona word meaning ‘relationship’ which represents one of our key values. Building strong relationships with our contract staff and customers is not only how we believe we can provide the best packaging services to our clients, but also how we...
by adminusr | Oct 16, 2017 | social entrepreneurship
Janine Roberts, an ex-nurse from Cape Town, has successfully achieved her goal of improving the lives of the people in Vrygrond, where she gave them the chance to step out of the poverty, insecurity, and all-around hopelessness they lived everyday. In this...
by adminusr | Oct 2, 2017 | packing solutions
Ukama’s founder, Janine Roberts, got together with SheInspiresHer for an interview that let everyone know a little more about her. In this interview Janine gets a little more personal. She talks about her life before entering the business world, why she decided to...
by adminusr | Oct 2, 2017 | packing solutions
Ukama’s founder, Janine Roberts, has come a long way since she first started in the business world. In this cofoundHer interview, Roberts talked about her background as a nurse, how she stepped into the packaging business, how she thinks Ukama can change the world,...
by adminusr | Sep 7, 2017 | community foundation
Ukama Holdings is a well-known social business model that has always been centred around helping the townships, where people live under circumstances that would never allow them to grow as entrepreneurs. On the same note of giving small communities a chance, Janine...
by adminusr | Sep 7, 2017 | social entrepreneurship
As featured on Oguntê – Impact Women. Vrygrond is a town that has been hit hard with poverty, insecurity, and drug dealership, and this is the place where Janine Roberts decided to establish Ukama, the business model that is set to benefit the poor. Janine strongly...
by adminusr | Oct 7, 2015 | social entrepreneurship
As featured on CapeTalk – Breakfast with Kieno Kammies: Ukama’s own Janine Roberts was one of the 31 South African entrepreneurs chosen by the Tony Elumelu Foundation to participate in their entrepreneur boot camp program. Listen to the Capetalk’s Breakfast with Kieno...
by adminusr | Oct 7, 2015 | social entrepreneurship
The mastermind behind Ukama, the business model set to turn members of marginalized communities into entrepreneurs, is Cape Town’s Janine Roberts. In this interview, Janine goes a little more in depth about how Ukama works and why she decided to create this program....
