Since its start in 1974, Rabo Foundation has been offering poor and disadvantaged groups the prospect of a sustainable future, both in the Netherlands and internationally. For this, Rabo Foundation pools together financial resources, its expertise and network.
The Foundation is Rabobank’s social fund and aims to invest in people self-sufficiency, and see self-sufficiency as an effective tool for aid and social assistance. Social impact is one of their main strategic pillars and they have a Client Fund, for Rabobank clients to contribute to the work of Rabo Foundation, and an Employee Fund, where employees and retired employees can support. These are the benefactors of the Rabo Foundation Employee Fund and they donate €4 a month, after which Rabobank matches this sum. This means that employees have ‘double impact’.
The Rabo Foundation hopes to learn from other corporate foundations in the EVPA community.
A subsidiary of DFCU Limited, DFCU Bank is a leading banking and financial services company domiciled in Uganda. It came into existence in May 2000 following DFCU’s acquisition of Gold Trust Bank to extending universal banking services alongside the pre-existing equity finance; long term development finance; leasing and working capital finance.
DFCU Limited was started by the Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) of the United Kingdom and the Government of Uganda through the Uganda Development Corporation (UDC) under the name of Development Finance Company of Uganda Limited. Subsequent restructuring saw International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the German Development Corporation (DEG) invest resulting in an equal stake of 25% for the shareholders. Its objective was to support long-term development projects whose financing needs and risk did not appeal to the then existing financial commercial lending institutions.
DFCU Limited was incorporated under the Laws of Uganda on the 14th of May 1964, as a Private Limited Liability Company. In 1999, DFCU acquired Uganda Leasing Company which became DFCU Leasing, to provide direct asset based finance. On 18th March 2004, DFCU Limited went public subsequently being listed on the Uganda Securities Exchange on the 14th of October 2004.
