Dr Daniel Muyanja

Absa Bank Uganda, in partnership with Raising Hope International Friends (RHIF), has over the last 7 months, imparted much-needed financial literacy training to 2,250 sickle cell caregivers as part of their commitment to empower 3,000 caregivers with essential financialskills by the end of 2023. The initiative is in response to the high cost of treatment for sickle cell disease and the fact that households affected by the disease are unable to plan for their treatment expenses and rely on out-of-pocket expenditures, leading to poor household financial planning. “We began this journey to address this challenge in March of this year,…