Upcoming · 2026 · Machakos · Makueni · Kitui

Hub Sambaza.

A network of community hubs serving as physical access points to digital services — advisory, financial inclusion onboarding, and a feedback loop into the platform’s product roadmap.

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StatusPlanned
Planned start2026
CountiesMachakos, Makueni, Kitui
Hubs17 planned
Reach~22,000 / year (target)
01 The brief

Digital services need a doorway.

For most rural users, the gap between “the service exists” and “I can use it” is not connectivity. It’s confidence, language, and a person to ask.

Hub Sambaza is designed to turn that bridge into infrastructure. A planned network of seventeen community hubs across the lower eastern counties would act as physical access points to digital advisory, savings group onboarding, insurance literacy and platform feedback — staffed by field agents trained in advisory and digital literacy.

Each hub is meant to double as a listening post. Product feedback collected at the desk will feed directly into our platform roadmap, so the field shapes the product, not the other way around.

02 What we’ll build

Three layers, one hub.

  1. A.

    Access desk

    Walk-in advisory, USSD/SMS help, insurance literacy, savings group onboarding.

  2. B.

    Field agent network

    Trained agents linking hubs to surrounding cooperatives and producer groups.

  3. C.

    Feedback loop

    Structured intake of product friction, language barriers and unmet need — routed back to the roadmap.

03 Where we’re headed

The ambition, in numbers.

17Community hubs planned
22kAnnualised visit volume (target)
3Counties in the plan
86%Return-visit rate we aim for