As a top 40 under 40 nominee, Daniel Ayebare, the Co-founder and Managing director of Aye Africa Foundation Limited and Aye World Foundation was proud to host the first social business project on the African continent termed 'Ebizzibu bugagga' (problems are wealth). 

It was sponsored by the Yunus Centre and co-implemented by Aye Africa Foundation and Kampala International University. The project was aimed at leveraging social business for youth empowerment that is to turn social economic challenges into opportunities for wealth creation.

Ayebare says they established great relationships with 16 universities across the country and trained over 1500 young people in social business and financial literacy. 

They also managed to enhance the social business ecosystem across Uganda and East Africa which will help sustain further engagements. 

"Our efforts were recognised at the East African Social Business Day in Nairobi, Kenya and the Global Social Business Summit in Langkawi, Malaysia," he said.

Through all these, Ayebare has learned that great accomplishments take time, resilience and consistency. One must condition oneself to embrace and overcome challenges as they come. He also learned to enjoy and celebrate small wins on the journey. 

"It helps you keep motivated to keep on pushing. There is no substitute for hard work. It takes a process to achieve goals and become the right person for those goals. Many a time it is a painful process that might involve betrayal, rejection and sometimes opposition but it is worth it in the end," he explained.

His plans for 2024 include working with his team to secure a home for the Association and ensure support of the member capacity building and engagement in line with the National Financial Literacy and National Financial Inclusion Strategies.