WISE, Women in Sustainable Enterprise - Kenya

Women and youth-led Ideas for People, Profits, and Planet

Women in Sustainable Enterprises (WISE) is an organization that economically empowers women and young people through sustainable enterprises in the Lake Victoria region. We work in five counties in Kenya, including; Kisumu, Siaya, Busia, Homabay, and Migori, and countries within the Lake Victoria basin including Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, DRC Congo, and Ethiopia.

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It’s more than a promise, but a premise.

Shop @ WISE is built to empower women entrepreneurs in the Lake Basin region.

Your purchases directly impact their local communities while supporting the global creative economy.

Your investment in Sustainable Businesses Transforms Lives

Around the world, women and young people face financial challenges in accessing finances to run their sustainable Businesses.
Funding can be a game-changer for women-owned green businesses, allowing them to invest in essential resources, technology, and infrastructure to scale their businesses sustainably.
Through WISE Capital, we offer low-interest working capital funds for up to 1000 USD for women-led/owned sustainable businesses.

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With your support, we are transforming their lives.

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Acceptance of any contribution, gift or grant is at the discretion of the Women in Sustainable Enterprise.

Women in Sustainable Enterprise will not accept any gift unless it can be used or expended consistently with the purpose and mission of the Women in Sustainable Enterprise.

No irrevocable gift, whether outright or life-income in character, will be accepted if under any reasonable set of circumstances the gift would jeopardize the donor’s financial security.

Women in Sustainable Enterprise will refrain from providing advice about the tax or other treatment of gifts and will encourage donors to seek guidance from their own professional advisers to assist them in the process of making their donation.

Women in Sustainable Enterprise will accept donations of cash or publicly traded securities. Gifts of in-kind services will be accepted at the discretion of the Women in Sustainable Enterprise.

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Women in Sustainable Enterprise will not compensate, whether through commissions, finders' fees, or other means, any third party for directing a gift or a donor to the Women in Sustainable Enterprise.

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TESTIMONIALS

“From the training, I gained new skills, setting goals and achieving them, meeting people through connection, networking, and sales during the exhibition or WISE meetings. The shopatwise.com website gained me new customers.”

Getting trained by WISE on Business Development has helped me manage my business effectively. I have also created impactful networks with other business contacts that I can use when making business decisions, scaling up my business and sourcing market for my produce.

“Being part of the Leadership program under the WISE Leadership Academy, I have evolved mentally, socially and economically. Armed with the learnt skills, I have taken up leadership roles at my school and have been able to come up with solutions to any challenges that come my way confidently”.

“Learning about Front-End Website Development using Visual Audio impacted my coding skills. WISE, offering these free course classes has helped girls like me to acquire skills that have placed us at a better position in the highly competitive job market”

I was given a cone garden, I am now able to plant vegetables and not go far away to the farm to get vegetables, especially during rainy seasons, when farms are inaccessible. I have 13 grandchildren who are orphans and I am using my cone garden to feed them. I also plant in gunias to make me have more vegetables for my grandchildren that I stay with.

Through WISE I have been part of Technovation Girls Challenge, an initiative that uses technology to solve problems in the community. We identified period shame as one of the challenges faced by girls in my community and we developed CHECKMATE, which is an app that is used to collect and distribute pads.

I learned how to operate the computer, I learned software skills, I learned how to operate social media platforms e.g. WhatsApp, Facebook, etc. I now have an email address and I have registered for 21 C Skills to learn Data Science.

I enrolled in the program with the intention of learning and getting equipped with relevant skills for a smooth transition of my career from Biomedical Science to Machine Learning. During the learning period, it was clear that I was deeply rooted in coding hence the choice to pursue data science and machine learning.