[7] She left her teaching job to take advantage of the scholarship Israel was offering for people training in hotel management.
Mbire has a professorship recognition from United Graduate and Seminar of America and was also a recipient of an honorary doctorate from Nkumba University in 2008.
[1][7][6] She later opened a garments' industry called Pop-in industry, a factory that tailored women's clothes,[6][7] but was forced to change business after Idi Amin's soldiers looted 100 sewing machines and rendered 200 workers and Mbire jobless.
[1] Mbire tstarted "Home pride", a bakery that was the first to introduce sliced bread in Uganda.
[1][6] Mbire, alongside Ms Ida Wanendeya, Justice Mary Maitun, and Ms Mary Mulumba, co-founded the Uganda Women's Finance and credit Trust with a mission to offer collateral free loans to low income earners and more particularly women who had no collateral.