Jaksally FNGO is a subsidiary of the JAKSALLY Social Development Trust Limited (JSDTL), 2016, which is also a subsidiary of the JAKSALLY Development Organisation (JADO or JAKSALLY), 2004, which was re-registered in 2017 from JAKSALLY Youth Group, established in 2000 and registered in 2004.

Jaksally Youth Group was started by four university students from Central University College, the University of Ghana, Legon, and Kumasi Polytechnic. These students came together in the year 2000 to start and run an organisation that was to produce sorghum to support the education of these young men. This failed woefully, and three of the young men lost hope. Jaksally has grown from one person, with the support of SNV from 1996, through a staff strength of 25, and now has over 64 volunteers, 100 local interns, and 20 international interns. Jaksally believes that “there shall be no waste.” We are practising Changing Minds, Changing the Future of the people we come in contact with.

Jaksally FNGO is a subsidiary of the JAKSALLY Social Development Trust Limited (JSDTL), 2016, which is also a subsidiary of the JAKSALLY Development Organisation (JADO or JAKSALLY), 2004, which was re-registered in 2017 from JAKSALLY Youth Group, established in 2000 and registered in 2004.

Jaksally Youth Group was started by four university students from Central University College, the University of Ghana, Legon, and Kumasi Polytechnic. These students came together in the year 2000 to start and run an organisation that was to produce sorghum to support the education of these young men. This failed woefully, and three of the young men lost hope. Jaksally has grown from one person, with the support of SNV from 1996, through a staff strength of 25, and now has over 64 volunteers, 100 local interns, and 20 international interns. Jaksally believes that “there shall be no waste.” We are practising Changing Minds, Changing the Future of the people we come in contact with.

Jaksally’s Founder and Executive Director, Jeremiah Abubakari Seidu, began his work in 2000. He quit a national university as a failure when he wanted to be trained as a Physics teacher at the University College of Education, Winneba, to start the Jaksally Youth Group. The first sorghum commercial student farmer raised funds to support his education through a private university, Central University College, Ghana. This experience inspired him to start the first local resource mobilisation institution, which used the concept of Village Savings and Loans methodology (VSLA developed by CARE International in 1991 in Niger), saving local resources and mobilising “patient capital” an inspiration: bridging the gap between rich and poor and to create Jaksally Youth Group. Indeed, when he founded Jaksally in 2000, few had heard of the terms patient capital, Village Savings & Loans, and impact investing.

We invest in breakthrough groups. We invest in early stage groups whose products and services enable the poor to transform their lives. We also support our groups with the tools, networks, technical assistance, and strategic guidance needed to succeed and scale into long term solutions to poverty.

Our Approach – Patient capital that dares to go where markets have failed and aid has fallen short! We invest in intrepid entrepreneurs and early-stage innovators tackling the problems of poverty. Markets alone cannot solve the problems of poverty, nor are charity and aid enough to tackle the challenges faced by over two thirds of the nation’s population living in poverty. Patient capital is a third way that seeks to bridge the gap between the efficiency and scale of market based approaches and the social impact of pure philanthropy.

Our approach to community investing in patient capital – Apex Community Urban Savings and Loans (ACUSAS). Rather than investing traditional capital, we invest philanthropically, or “patient,” capital that provides startups with the flexibility and security to grow their businesses and reach as many poor beneficiaries as possible.

It starts by standing with the poor, listening to voices unheard, and recognizing potential where others see despair. It demands investing as a means, not an end, daring to go where markets have failed and aid has fallen short. It makes capital work for us, not control us. It thrives on moral imagination: the humility to see the world as it is, and the audacity to imagine the world as it could be. It’s having the ambition to learn at the edge, the wisdom to admit failure, and the courage to start again.

It requires patience and kindness, resilience, and grit: a hard edged hope. Its leadership that rejects complacency, breaks through bureaucracy, and challenges corruption. Doing what’s right, not what’s easy. Jaksally: it’s the radical idea of creating hope in a cynical world. Changing the way, the world tackles poverty and building a world based on dignity.

With Determination and Grit, Everyone Can Contribute to a Better Future

Partnering with Jaksally – Our partners are change makers. They put their money where their mouths are and they’re not afraid of taking risks to create outsized impact. They share our belief that every individual, not just some, deserves the right to live with dignity, not dependence. Our partners are the individuals, communities, groups, Donors, corporations, and institutions that provide the financial and human capital that allow us to take on the world’s toughest challenges. Partner With Us. Together, We Can Build a More Inclusive Nation

Jaksally is a wealth creation organization. She does this through positive people, groups, and community mobilization. Jaksally is a highly disciplined organization with a strong, positive capacity building culture, and she is a trustworthy organization.

Jaksally is very powerful in life changing through changing minds and changing futures. She is a great resource and a skillful resource mobilization team. Empowerment is not only a powerful description but an action based on Jaksally’s programs. Transparency and accountability are the hallmarks of Jaksally and her programs. Jaksally is a trusted, hard-working, and action-oriented organization.

We are discovering wealth wisdom, urban savings, and loans associations (USLAs) a new methodology from our traditional Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs). Jaksally is moving forward with more discoveries and the development of an APEX banking system. An APEX CSLA institution is a collaboration between 5 and 20 individual Community Savings and Loans Associations (CSLAs). By pooling resources, CSLAs can save into an APEX Loan Fund, from which individual CSLAs can borrow to increase the capitalization of their CSLA loan funds. It also provides and operates an insurance fund that covers the risk of individual default, operates an education fund, and finances technical visits by external agencies, mainly related to agriculture. APEX CSLAs are member-managed community savings and loans associations.

Jaksally continues to discover and improve financial literacy. A time-conscious organization in action and operation is seen and practiced in our programs. Jaksally is a resource sharing organization, doing this through different programmatic areas with different partners, involving different people and different skills.

Jaksally’s story and brand are unique among non-governmental organizations. We have discovered a leadership model that not only develops appreciative leadership but also transformational, wealth creative, disciplined, trusted, and action oriented leaders.

Jaksally’s leadership model has the capacity to translate vision into reality. It is the process of influencing others to realize their beneficial goals or aspirations. Our leadership model has the following attributes:

Sacrifice – giving up something now to gain something later.
Service – working to meet the needs of others.
Simplicity – simplifying the mission and making it clear to communicate.
Sophistication – the ability to grapple with a wider range of complex issues at the same time.
Solution-oriented – solving problems, not just talking or complaining.
Soundness – knowing how to avoid extremes and achieve a balance between family, career, and ministry, and prioritizing relationships.
Significance – great leaders create enduring value and seek to create results that will outlive them, ultimately transferring power to organizational structures to ensure longevity.

The true hallmark of our leadership model is sharing the burden, empowering others to get involved, and multiplying results.

Jaksally is working to become an excellent center for knowledge-sharing. Jaksally is doing this by putting resources together and combining appropriate planning techniques, methodologies, and skills.

Collaboration and partnership are our hallmarks. This is achieved through our multiple partnerships and joint development of implementation plans for projects. Our strong stakeholder engagement process, from grassroots to end users, positions Jaksally as a strong and reliable organization to partner with. Jaksally is very much aware of crises and pandemics such as COVID-19 and therefore develops and implements programs and projects that respond to current needs. This is our approach, and it is all-inclusive.