From Vision to Reality: Steven Kakooza’s Journey to Creating Kawu – Uganda’s Revolutionary Pocket Money App. Students of St Kizito SSS in Bugolobi show off their Kawu Cards.

In the last week of this year’s first term, I downloaded an app called Kawu. Using the app, I was able to send pocket money to a distant relative in her Senior Five at Budo SS. By just plugging in their card number, I got the image and other details of this relative. And in a flash, the transfer was made. This is not a testimony that is reserved for me. Plenty of other people can attest to enjoying these services.  I engaged with a parent, who declined to be named, over a phone conversation about Kawu. A single mother,…