If most of us think back to our childhood Christmases, amongst the haze of decorations, overflowing stockings, terrible fruit cake, overplayed Christmas carols and mounds of wrapping paper – one iconic image always springs to mind – Santa and his notorious naughty list. As an adult the belief in another notorious list also brings shudders at its mere mention– the blacklist.

In the true spirit of the festive season Stellenbosch based credit bureau, Compuscan, decided to warm the hearts of the children of Village Kids Nursery School in Garden Village, Somerset West when they launched an internal “Compuscan Shoebox” drive.

Drawing its inspiration from the original Santa Shoebox Project, staff chose to put together a shoebox for each of the school’s children filled with goodies such as clothing, toys, sweets and hygiene items.

Compuscan was proud to launch Uganda’s first credit bureau based scorecard, CompuScore, on 8 December 2011. The event took place at the Emin Pasha Hotel, Kampala, and was attended by the Governor : Bank of Uganda, as well as by several CEO’s and bank officials of regulated financial sector institutions in Uganda. Various members of the broader financial sector stakeholder community were also in attendance.