Seed Effect Q2 Impact Report 2026

Q2 • 2026

Seed Effect Impact Report

Seed Effect Stats Since 2017, Seed Effect has grown to serve over 130,000 South Sudanese and Ugandans who have celebrated tremendous growth and impact! Thank you for making this growth possible!

MEMBERS SERVED

GROUPS SERVED

ACTIVE FIELD OFFICES

$ SAVED

$ LOANED

136,998

5,169

9

$14,738,613

$11,202,377

Back Where We Began: South Sudan South Sudan is where Seed Effect began, but war forced our team to evacuate in 2016. In 2024, we returned and resumed our work in Kajo Keji, a rural community on the border.

Two years on, 2,988 Seed Effect members are saving together across 109 groups. They started with almost nothing: the average member had

"Through Seed Effect savings groups, they find a family.

Through Christ, they rediscover their identity. Through faithful stewardship, hard work, and the support of their group, they begin to save, start businesses, build

saved just $9 in their lifetime, and 84% had no

homes, send their children to

savings at all. Within two savings cycles, their

school, and dream again."

combined savings and profit grew to an average of $67 per person, a 7.4-fold increase, built entirely from their own disciplined saving and

BISMARCK YENGI,

lending. And the fruit is more than financial:

South Sudan Country Director

nearly every member reports a deepening relationship with God, with others, and with their community!

As our work in Kajo Keji continues to grow, we’re planning to expand into a new location in South

Read Bismarck's full letter from South Sudan. Read more >

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A Hard Context, a Strong Impact: What We’re Seeing in Lamwo We work in hard places, and aside from our

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South Sudan location, Lamwo is one of the

study by Elon University found that members

hardest. In the far north of Uganda on the South

here became measurably more resilient, even

Sudan border, it is one of the most remote

after refugee food rations were cut by a third.

districts in the country, still healing from decades of war and now home to more than

With the right tools, our members in Lamwo are

85,000 South Sudanese refugees.

proving how capable and resilient they are. In the toughest soil, they are putting down some of the deepest roots.

“Through Seed Effect, I gained access to financial tools.

Through weekly saving and taking loans from my group as needed, my finances have been boosted...

Members here enter our program from one of the most constrained starting points.

This helped in paying school fees and buying food. My business saves time for our community members.

Before joining Seed Effect, they report around $3 in income per week, with 19% eating only one

They no longer have to go far

meal a day, and only 1 in 5 having access to a

distances to source the items

loan before Seed Effect.

they need.”

Lamwo's members start with the least, and do the most with it.

PAMELA,

Seed Effect Member, Lamwo

Over their first three savings cycles, they more than double the weekly income they bring home, a 2.4x climb from where they start, and

Read more about the impact we are seeing in Lamwo. Read more >

steadily build assets from a thin base.

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Meet Joyce Aziku

She used every loan with care: paying school fees, making bricks, raising and roofing her house, buying cattle, goats, pigs, and poultry,

Before Joyce joined Seed Effect, she already

and starting a small pancake business. Now in

worked hard, farming to feed her family and pay

her fourth cycle, Joyce and her Ale Ozo Seed

her children's school fees. But hard work alone

Effect group are still saving on their own,

was never quite enough to get ahead. When a

without any support from Seed Effect.

Seed Effect group formed in her community, she was ready, and she began to save.

Joyce came to Seed Effect as a farmer who worked hard but could never quite get ahead.

Over three savings cycles, Joyce saved about

She is graduating as a homeowner, a

$857 of her own money and received back

businesswoman, a livestock keeper, a

roughly $1,297 at her group's share-out.

community leader, and a woman who says she now faces life boldly because she has learned to trust God and herself.

“Seed Effect has truly changed my life and my home.

Watch Joyce’s story at seedeffect.org/joyce-aziku >

The teachings and training I received have brought great transformation in my life.”

JOYCE,

Seed Effect Member, Moyo

Thank you for investing in restoration and economic empowerment!

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