Who we are · Our vision
A world where every farmer has a verified economic identity.
We see an Africa where a farmer, cooperative, or agribusiness can prove who they are and what they produce — and turn that proof into markets, finance, and trade. Verified, real-time data is the foundation we’re building it on.
How we started
It started with PadSHARE.
In 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdown, our founder Sandra Awilli built PadSHARE — the same verified-card, app, and dashboard infrastructure ShareCARD runs on today, built first to decentralize and trace menstrual-resource delivery to girls who needed it. Every PADcard verified who received a package, when, and where, with 100% remote accountability. It won first prize at the EU–Africa Hackathon, and a €20,000 seed from Garage48 made it real — funding the app, the field agents, and the first 200 PADcards. The stack worked at the hardest last mile; ShareCARD is that same card-app-dashboard infrastructure, rebuilt for farmers.
The PadSHARE story
Where it began: girls, pads, and proof.
Before ShareCARD served farmers, it served girls — and proved that verified data can reach the people who need it most.
Moran was fifteen when she joined the pilot — resorting to rags, missing school and skipping sport. She’s exactly who PadSHARE was built for.
During the COVID-19 lockdown, PadSHARE served 200 girls in the Kisenyi settlement in Kampala — distributing 500 period packages through trained field agents, each one confirmed remotely with 100% accountability and collected within a five-minute walk of home. The reusable pads and underwear came from our partner AfriPads.
200
girls served monthly
500
period packages
100%
remote accountability
€20K
Garage48 seed win
Proven at the last mile
That first build delivered 100% accountability and real-time insight — remotely, at the very edge of the network. The technology worked, and it worked where connectivity and trust are hardest.
The bigger opportunity
Then we saw where it mattered most: agriculture. Farmers, cooperatives, and agribusinesses across Africa were locked out of markets and finance for one reason — no verified way to prove identity, activity, or provenance.
70%
of organisations in Africa lacked a standardised system for data management and reporting.
The 2017 IATI finding that pushed us to build ShareCARD in the first place. Every farmer, agent, and transaction now lands on one verified card instead of a spreadsheet nobody trusts — the gap ShareCARD closes for the agribusinesses and financiers who depend on that data.
Our mission
Turn verified identity into market access, finance, and trade.
To give farmers and the businesses that work with them the tools to turn verified, traceable data into real economic opportunity — building the trust layer African agriculture runs on.
The team
The people building it.
A small team with deep roots in agriculture, technology, and the field.
The ShareCARD team · Kampala, Uganda
Engineering
Technical Lead
Engineering
Platform Scale Lead
Engineering
Mobile App Lead
Engineering
Backend & Frontend Dev
Engineering
Business Relations
Customer Success Lead
Business Relations
Regional Coordinator
Business Relations
A message from our founder
“We started ShareCARD to prove one thing — that a farmer with verified data is a farmer with options: access to markets, to credit, to a fair price. Everything we build serves that.”
Sandra Awilli
Founder & CEO, ShareCARD
In the field
Where the work actually happens — supporting farmers and agents across the region.
Where this is headed
A verified base, still early — and growing every month.
4,006 farmers verified across 22 regions is the foundation, not the ceiling. Every new SACCO, buyer, and agent that joins compounds the network for the ones already on it.
Active demand
Ready buyers with standing monthly volume commitments across our core crops — supply and demand both move through the network.
Expanding footprint
Digitize Africa is onboarding new SACCOs and cooperatives each cohort — see the current campaign.
Building with partners
Talking to financiers and development partners about scaling this further? Get in touch.
More about ShareCARD
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