Sogavi-kumi is result of the UNIDO (United nations industrial development organisation) ideology finding a fertile ground of attitude. It became more apparent when in December 2010, God permitted some unscrupulous persons to reduce to ash the 'Soroti garments' workshop that was along Gweri road in the then soroti municipality. In January 2011, sogavi-kumi built and inhabited our first structure on plot 24 Ariko road which is now Sogavi-kumi head office.​ Being an industrialist, my intention was to develop a garment industry in Kumi but serendipity befell​ us when Private Sector Foundation Uganda assigned me to provide skills training for youths in and around eastern Uganda​ under the​ Enterprise Skills Linkage programme in 2010 and 2011.​ Coincidentally, the Ugandan technical teachers for tailoring (as they were then called) had stagnated in their career development and we formed a consortium together with other institutions in Kampala to upgrade our teachers to Diploma level through in-service training.​ Eventually UBTEB together with NCDC asked such institutions​ to harmonise the various curricular to form the National Diploma in Fashion and Garment Design now examined by UBTEB,​ which sogavi-kumi was given (among others)​ to pilot.​