How your Chama can Invest in T-Bills and T-Bonds
How your Chama can Invest in T-Bills and T-Bonds

There are many options available for your chama to invest the collected funds. In weighing one’s opt...

How to Grow Members in your Chama
How to Grow Members in your Chama

With a solid foundation, it is time to expand. Once you chama has a firm constitution and all the ro...

Effective Communication within your Chama
Effective Communication within your Chama

For proper group cohesion, there has to be a free flow of information between all members. Within a...

Tips for Time Management in Chama Meetings
Tips for Time Management in Chama Meetings

Too often people have the excuse of “African Timers”. This is just to allow for their disregard to a...

How to Improve Your Chama
How to Improve Your Chama

Chamas are primarily table banking groups that host people with similar interests. These people team...

The Art of Negotiation for your Chama
The Art of Negotiation for your Chama

In Kenya, haggling is an everyday occurrence. It is deeply embedded in our culture, from haggling in...

Chama Tax Laws
Chama Tax Laws

Once you decide to start a chama, a fundamental decision needs to be made: how will you register you...

Reasons a Chama Enhances the Community
Reasons a Chama Enhances the Community

Chamas have long been beneficial to individuals. People have managed to accomplish so many things th...

Leadership Succession After Death in a Chama.
Leadership Succession After Death in a Chama.

Losing a Chama member is devastating; losing the chair can cause turmoil and uncertainty. In many Af...

Types of Chama
Types of Chama

Many people often shy away from the informal types of Chama for fear that they will fail or some mem...

Reasons a Chama can Fail
Reasons a Chama can Fail

Chama’s are designed to help its members achieve some financial goals that were otherwise away from...

Requirements to open a Bank Account for your Chama
Requirements to open a Bank Account for your Chama

“Coming together is the beginning, keeping together is progress but finding the right financial part...