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Banana Boat provides work opportunities for local crafters, small entrepreneurs and women's groups. We pay on delivery and advance capital to buy materials, as well as giving interest free loans. We favour hand-made over factory made, natural over synthetic. We like using pure and natural materials and selling recycled items. Our paper products (Papercraft Africa) are hand made in Uganda using recycled paper and natural fibres. Our beautiful recycled paper bead jewellery is made out of old cereal packets and magazines. Our coloured glass is hand blown out of old wine bottles. Our candles are hand dipped by girls from The Candle light Foundation who previously had problems with their lives forcing them to live on the streets of Kampala. If you are happy with your purchase from Banana Boat then we are happy that we can keep our producers busy and help them to maintain a regular income following the principles of Fair Trade. Banana Boat is a sustainable and independent business

Future Technologies Limited is the leading provider of computer education in Uganda. In order to achieve our objective of providing quality higher education, we have made unique partnerships and strategic alliances with the global leaders in the IT education field. Our alliance partnership with Aptech Worldwide brings a unique delivery of IT career courses that fully equips students to gain complete confidence to meet any challenges in IT industry.  Aptech Uganda, where more than 9,000 students have been trained is among the premier Aptech centers across the world. Aptech is acclaimed as the leading IT training institution in the world with a network spreading across 54 countries, connecting over 3,200 locations, providing a wide range of educational programs. Future Technologies is one of the largest Microsoft Certified Competency Learning Centers in the region. This is the highest level of accreditation provided to Microsoft Partners who have demonstrated the highest level of expertise in I.T. skill delivery and have world-class infrastructure.    Courses are delivered in its original form, and students get the Microsoft Official Curriculum kits and the course participation certificates from Microsoft. Our association with Oracle University as the Oracle Approved Education Partner makes us authorized to conduct training using the official curriculum of Oracle University. Oracle University accredited institutions are the only ones authorized to conduct Oracle training using the official curriculum from the Oracle University, designed by Oracle to deliver the training in original technology and style.    Our Services Software Development FutureGateway Software Development specialized in process of conceiving, specifying, designing, programming, documenting, testing and bug fixing.   Testing Services FutureTechnologies partnered with PEARSON VUE, PROMETRIC and ICDL to provide technology-enabled testing and assessment solutions in Uganda.   IT Consulting FutureTechnology specialized IT consulting team focuses on advising organisations on how best to use information technology in archiving their business objectives. Our association with CompTIA (Computer Technology Industry Association) as the CompTIA Learning Alliance Partner enables us to deliver platform independent technology learning. CompTIA is the largest developer of vendor neutral IT Certification Courses in the world. Future Technologies houses an Authorized Prometric Testing Centre (APTC) enabling students and professionals to appear in online testing for certification process by various vendors.    Our Enterprise Training and Solutions (ETS) division offers software development and implementation services and corporate training. Our association with Arena Multimedia, the Asia's leader in Multimedia education, enables us to deliver various multi-media courses in the region. All the above alliances and tie-ups make us the unique player in the IT industry in the region.

Weir Minerals Africa offers a range of slurry pumps, dewatering pumps, hydrocyclones, high pressure grinding rolls, slurry valves and mill liners. The products available from Weir Minerals Africa delivery high performance and reliability backed by superior technical expertise and customer focused service.

UELS is a leading bookseller and distributor of children's books and a provider of educational technology products and laboratory materials in Botswana. School supplies are our primary area of business. We have responded to our customers needs by refining our services to fit. Large products range and consistent stock levels leading supplier of science equipment and resources for schools, colleges and universities. We aim to assist the growth of the Education industry in Botswana by supplying quality imported Educational Material to schools, crèches, libraries and the Ministry Of Education. UEL services Booksellers have already serviced various schools with direct orders over the course of 2011. The Company obtains titles for sale through its distribution channels from South Africa, India and United Kingdom. Everything you may need for your creche, laboratory & library.

Tannery Industries Botswana (TIB) is a leather processing company based in Botswana. TIB produces finished leather by employing advanced and environmentally friendly techniques in its operations. A complete set of modern leather processing equipment and machinery allows versatile production of a wide variety and flexible volumes of leathers.TIB operations are based on the use of bovine hides, goat, sheep and game skins, all of them being available in Botswana and the region.Lobatse Retanning PlantTIB has a factory on the eastern side of the existing wet-blue tannery where retanning activities are undertaken. Realising production processes can have adverse effect on the environment. TIB has installed a state-of-the-art effluent treatment plant at the retanning factory in order to process the production effluent before it is discharged into the municipal sewer line.Phakalane Finishing PlantThe finishing plant receives wet crust leather from the retanning plant in Lobatse.  The major activities are drying, conditioning, upgrading and spray/roll application of water based finishes to provide the final physical/chemical properties of the leather. Tannery Industries Botswana (TIB) was incorporated on the 10th December 2004 to establish and operate a leather processing business. Project implementation started in May 2005 and the business was officially opened on 26 April 2007. TIB was set up on joint venture partnership between two Batswana, two Bulgarians, CEDA Venture Capital Fund and Botswana Development Corporation.