RIDO SACCO is a co-operative society focused on providing farmers with low-interest and friendly financial services, improving agriculture in order to boost their investment and enhance livelihoods.

RIDO SACCO is a dynamic, innovative, fervent, farmer-centred co-operative committed to serving its member farmers and to supplying quality financial services while improving members’ standard of living.

Out of the need for financial services by the local community of Igayaza and the presence of many mushrooming money lenders who could charge up to 25% per month, a group of 30 residents of Igayaza and Kakumiro in 2009 came up with the idea of starting a financial institution that could provide financial services on a sustainable basis at affordable prices.