Feb 3, 2019 | Entrepreneurship
Search for: How this growing business is helping women thrive My name is Patience Murungi, and I am the leader of Kula’s mentorship program in Rwanda’s Northern Province. The Kula Fellowship is 15-month program where women receive industry training, learn life and...
Nov 3, 2018 | Entrepreneurship, Organizations We Love
Search for: Publishing Our Wages Why publish our wages? TO PROTECT AND EMPOWER WOMEN Most wages are oppressively low, but when a woman makes a living wage, her personal safety increases, and her children’s health, nutrition, and education increase as well. Investing...
Jun 4, 2018 | Entrepreneurship, Organizations We Love
Search for: How one woman is helping some farmers in Kenya create a path out of poverty It’s hard to believe that a woman from a pastoral family in remote northeastern Kenya could grow up to be the CEO of one of her country’s most successful social enterprises. But...
Apr 24, 2018 | Entrepreneurship, Technology
Search for: Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) have notoriously been the minority — but that’s changing. Women in STEM are on the rise thanks to multiple pushes on local and national levels to get young girls involved in science...
May 25, 2017 | Entrepreneurship, Girls We Love
Search for: Meet Rifkatu Rifkatu is a mother of six living in Plateau State in Nigeria. The region her family lives in is unstable and conflict-ridden, but the peace Rifkatu most urgently needed when we met her was in her home. Rifkatu’s husband, Jonah, would hit her...
Dec 12, 2016 | Entrepreneurship
Search for: SLA Rings the Closing Bell at the NYSE On December 9, She Leads Africa became the first African startup to ring the Closing Bell at the New York Stock Exchange. As part of the NYSE’s outreach program, the American stock exchange invited She Leads...