Under our series of website talks at AppNomu, we every week publish a case study from different clients who have used our products including website design services, website application development services, and Digital Marketing services which include Bulk SMS, Pay Per Click, Website Hosting and Domain Registration among others.
Having a website with us does not cost a lot of money, it costs UGX850,000 including Hosting and domain name for the first year and for the rest of the period you only pay for hosting service and domain renewal at an affordable rate, or you can as well decide to migrate your website to another hosting provider. However, we are the leading hosting provider in Uganda powering more than 25,000 websites in more than ten countries.
In today’s case study, we will see the power of having a website and what it means to Sarkonah Radiant Love Organization (SARLO).
What is Sarkonah Radiant Love Organization (SARLO)?
Sarkonah Radiant Love Organization (SARLO) is a Charity Based Organization (CBO) located along Market Street plot 121 Bugiri Municipality. P.O. BOX 134 BGR. The Organization was Founded by Nakibuule Sarah who went through similar conditions of suffering as most African girls undergo but manoeuvred and conquered in 2023 Nov. Officially launched even though, over 10 years helping kids and girls informally.
Sarah draws her passion from her humble beginnings born elder to 5siblings and raised by a single-handed mother, Sarah never saw her father. She was educated by the church through the help of Compassion International.
Given the hardships, she went through as a growing up young girl, enduring several temptations of the youths, she had limited hope that she would study through university or even have a good life, which she did graduating with a degree in social work and social Administration and getting married to a wonderful ceremony in 2005. She is blessed with 4wonderful kids 2boys and 2girls all of them very brilliant. Sarah learned to thrive under all odds as most of her holidays she served as a housemaid to earn her tuition for the next level, where she was later adopted as a daughter in the home due to her extraordinary humility in character and blessed hands!
After Sarah’s graduation and marriage, she got her 1st employment with the Compassion Project where she served so well and passionately that her name cannot be erased from the kids’ and caregivers’ hearts 7year down the road, she has remained an auntie to them to date as she offered in a way of motivating the children to study and stay in school, she bakes cakes and designs functions for free to any who graduates and introduces formerly and so many have succeeded due to this inspiration!.
Her current job, is designing events and a bakery, and because God has prospered her business she chose to open her home to all the needy, she has taken on over 10 young people, not related a tall to pay their tuition. She uses the proceeds from the business to give charity to the Karamojong children in Busowa every Sunday as a way of ministering practical(radiant love ) to the community without seeking public notice or recognition.
In addition, Sarah has launched an anonymous governmental organization Sarkonah Radiant Love with a passion for doing more for the community and to allow over 100 young mothers and dropout girls to acquire skills in the bakery. She desires to impact more girls with different vocational skills within Eastern Uganda and transform Africa!
Through her generosity, she has offered a locomotive bicycle to a crippled lady, Najuma; She feeds the hungry, the elderly and the former deaf pupils of Naluwerere to find their way to her home each Sunday after church for a meal, community children are always full in her compound daily and you can hardly differentiate her real kids from those of the neighbours. The couple has opened doors to everyone without discrimination.!!!
The Organization is founded on a Mission of being An organization with excellence in empowering individuals, families, and communities to alleviate illiteracy, disease, and poverty through advocacy and communication, community interventions, training, and research.
The Challenge
Being a newly formed organization, wanted to leverage the online presence of having a website to showcase their talents, and cause and share the same vision and mission with the rest of the World. It was hard to come up with a website and hence they had to look for a suitable service provider until when they got a recommendation from Tizomu, our affiliate in Bugiri Municipality.
The major challenge was not being able to share their vision with the world and also to solicit resources from different locations like online donations and online recruiting of volunteers.
“We were starting a new organisation so we needed visibility to create a website.
We feel we have partly achieved our goal even though we still have a gap in updating the site to be up-to-date due to technical challenges.” Says Konah Wafula one of the organization’s directors
Like any other new person in the digital world, challenges like having less knowledge to handle, manage control or update content on the website can be tiresome and hence require technical knowledge and is one of the challenges that they have pointed out.
The Benefit
Being a smaller Organization like Sarkonah Radiant Love Organization (SARLO), a website can help you reach a wider audience and increase the visibility of your brand since your website can be accessed from anywhere in the world with just an internet connection.
Also depending on the use case, you can also have the opportunity to collect donations online from your donors and post images, videos, projects and updates from your organization. Like Sarkonah Radiant Love Organization (SARLO), it is very easy to find their information in searches something that has added visibility to their brand and their Organization.
However, you need to consider a lot before making a selection of having a website, and as well you need to know why you need the website and for what major purpose.
Here is another [article to help you get to know things to consider before choosing your website hosting provider and IT outsourcing partner for your business].
Another common thing to consider before creating your website is the level of Technicalities needed to maintain and manage your website as a webmaster can charge around $350/Month in Uganda just to maintain your website and make sure things are moving in order.
“We are not very familiar with the use of the site and we feel we have not performed so well .
We have never had any other service providers and so we have no complaint.
We wish to be supported to be able to manage our site effectively.
Thank you very much” Says Konah Wafula.
At AppNomu, we believe in giving good customer service and this is something we have been striving for since the beginning. Our support team can provide support but unfortunately, you need to have a technical person to handle other requests, we are majorly focused on hosting-related issues and if the issue comes from our end, uploading your website, creating content, managing your website, all comes at your cost.
If you are a busy organization, and you need us to manage your website, then you can subscribe to our monthly package at $25/Month and this means, we take care of your website, manage the content, audit, and make sure you thrive.
We are open and willing to respond to any question or feedback, kindly leave your thoughts in the comment section, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
