Obumu means "unity" in Luganda. We're a Kampala-built team making it simple, safe, and transparent for communities to raise and track money together. Every shilling, accounted for.
Simple collections for every community.
That's why we built Obumu, so no one has to keep a mental tally of who paid what, or wonder where the money went.
Across Uganda, communities have always come together for weddings, introductions, medical emergencies, and school fees. But keeping track of who contributed, chasing pledges, and proving where the money went was always the hard part.
Obumu digitises that trust. Organisers create a collection in minutes, contributors pay with MTN MoMo, Airtel Money, Visa, or bank transfer, and everyone can see the running total, live, in one place.
A small Kampala team, tired of watching spreadsheets and paper lists fail communities, starts building a simpler way to collect and track money together.
The first collections launch on mobile money rails, starting with weddings, burials, and medical appeals across Kampala and Wakiso.
Pledge tracking, multi-organiser access, and instant payouts roll out, and Obumu crosses its first billion shillings collected.
Obumu expands beyond Kampala, adding support for schools, churches, and grassroots projects in every corner of Uganda.
Obumu exists to bring people together around a shared cause, never to complicate it.
Every contribution and pledge is visible and timestamped, so trust is never a guessing game.
We work only with regulated, licensed payment rails and bank-grade encryption throughout.
If it takes more than a few taps, we've made it too hard. We design for every phone, every network.
Every transaction is encrypted end-to-end, from the moment money moves to the moment it's recorded.
Organisers and contributors both see a live, itemised record of every shilling collected.
Obumu works directly with MTN Mobile Money, Airtel Money, and Visa using regulated, licensed payment rails.
Set up your first collection in minutes. Free to start. Easy to use.
