Metal fabrication has earned Wanna a name, big deals

By Juliet Waiswa

SHE may be young, but her ambition has taken her to greater heights. The 24-year-old Immaculate Wanna started small, but at her age, she can be referred to as one of Ugandan’s youngest entrepreneurs.

A marketing graduate of Makerere University Business School (MUBS), Wanna started her business in 2007, during her Senior Six vacation. At the beginning, she says, she only had her skills and little capital from her partner.

Today, she is one of the leading suppliers of metal fabrication in Kampala. While at university, Wanna would work and also look for clients during the day because her lectures were always in the evening.

Immaculate Wanna in her office in Ntinda, a Kampala suburb

Wanna completed her studies last year, but she did not bother looking for a job since she was already employed. Her business produces windows, doors, staircases, balconies, chairs, garden and wrought chairs.

“I am creative and I wanted to invest in something that is unique,” she says.

Wanna says her business has won her big deals like designing staircases for the Imperial Royale Hotel, City Royal Hotel in Bugolobi, Golf Lane in Masaka and homes like that of the Acholi king in Gulu and schools.

The second-last born in a family of five, Wanna says she took on metal fabrication after realising that it was still virgin business and people who carried it out were the Juwakali from Katwe and she knew she could beat them.

Wanna went to Kajjansi Progressive School for her O’level and Ntinda View for A’level.