In a country where agriculture remains the single largest source of employment, Companionship of Works Association (COWA) a one Ugandan nonprofit has built what amounts to a talent pipeline for the agricultural sector.
It is doing so by recruiting from the population what most employers overlook: vulnerable youth, young women, and even juvenile offenders passing through the country’s remand system.
Founded in 1988 and formally registered as an NGO in 1994, COWA has spent nearly four decades building what its Executive Director, Chrispine Wanyahoro, describes as a deliberately narrow strategy: turn vulnerability into employability, fast.
