This group shares a common vision: charity is not the best option to end poverty in Uganda, rather it is enterprise and entrepreneurship.
Empowered with tools from Vision Force Academy, Clovis created a Mastermind group to network, brainstorm and put the fundamentals of Vision Force on ground. He shared it with the members of YVU and his friends who were already in the field of business and entrepreneurship. The Mastermind group includes people who have already put work on ground. The Mastermind team meets every week to assess, share common goals, create win-win situations, intervene in difficult times and look at the way forward as far as enterprising is concerned. This is also a form of networking.
The members of the Mastermind group are Semakula Saidi and Clovis Ategeka of Vision Café Wandegeya, Odota Denis and Obima Patricia of XXX, Agaba Vincent of Avarts Housing Ltd, Ntenga Moses and Diana of JFCU and KSL, Avis, Ronald, James and Rogers, Ategeka Joshua, Mirembe Stephane and Tumusabe Paul of Kamwokya Project and Ddamulira Stephen and Ategeka Joshua of Visual IT Solutions.
Mission: If two hands are better than one, what about three?
Through sharing of the basics discussed during Mastermind sessions, and being exemplary, Vision Force Uganda has created friends who do a lot of networking, and this is a very big chain of people. Most of them have their projects at a conceptual level and they are learning a great deal from YVU and the Mastermind group. These people also mobilize and play a great marketing role as far as the starting enterprises are concerned. The "friends" base has now taken another leap, and we are now having friends outside Uganda (who are always updated on what goes on here in Uganda) in terms of business and entrepreneurship.