Ecosystem

Build the relationships around the group

A group grows stronger when its records can open the right doors: funding, training, financial products, professional support and markets. Kitabu Yetu connects those relationships without taking the group's own book away from it.

A smiling woman in a headscarf seated at a classroom desk with the group record book open

Donors

Money given to a group should be traceable to what it did there. Donors see the group's own records rather than a summary written for them.

Follow the money to the group

Disbursements are recorded against the group that received them, and against the members they reached.

Reporting off the ledger

The figures in the report are the figures in the books, so nobody rebuilds them in a spreadsheet at the end of a quarter.

The group keeps its own book

Funding is one part of a group's record, not a separate system the treasurer has to keep in step.

Two people shaking hands in an office in Nairobi

Multigroup Organizations

NGOs, networks, church bodies and apex organizations that support many groups at once, from one account.

Every group in one view

Linked groups under a single organization account, each keeping its own ledger and its own committee.

Staff, not shared logins

Your coordinators get their own accounts and their own access, rather than passing one password around.

A portfolio you can report on

Reports across the groups you support, built from what each group actually recorded.

A young man checking his phone while crossing a street in Dar es Salaam

Marketplace

Groups already buy things together — inputs, stock, services, insurance. The marketplace is where those offers meet the groups, matched against a group's own record.

Offers that reach a group, not an individual

A committee decides together, so an offer has to be visible to the whole group rather than one member's phone.

Paid for from the group's account

A purchase the group makes is a transaction in the group's book like any other.

Matched to what a group can show

Each offer can set its own criteria — how long a group has run, its type, its county, its balance — so a group sees where it stands before it applies.

Four young women laughing together around a laptop on a coffee table

Programs

A funded programme running across many groups: its own rules, its own disbursements, and reporting that does not depend on chasing every group for numbers.

One programme, many groups

Run a programme across the groups enrolled in it, with each group's participation recorded in its own book.

Disbursements that leave a trail

What went out, to which group, and what it was for — recorded when it happens rather than reconstructed later.

Reports the funder can check

Programme reporting built from the groups' ledgers, with the audit trail still attached.

Built on

The products underneath

Every pillar above sits on top of the same products: Bookkeeper for the ledger, Chama Reminder (Kumbusha) for the messaging, and Fundraise / Changi$ha for causes and campaigns.

Your next meeting, with the books already balanced.

From KES 150 a month, paid by M-Pesa. No contract.

Start your group book