Wedu: Bridging the Gender Gap and Redefining Women’s Leadership
Wedu enables women leaders in South and Southeast Asia to access leadership capabilities, a lifelong community, and ample capital.
Women
Solutions
Working together
Empowering women through the Mothers’ Clubs
The Mothers' Club (MC) is a holistic approach that promotes women's empowerment and resilience (and that of their households and communities). The approach is based on three components: a savings and credit component that allows MC members to save and access small credits to develop their income-generating activities or solidarity credits; community awareness-raising and a collective income-generating activity.
French Red Cross and Kenyan Red CrossIncome-Generating ActivityWorking together
The Women Social Entrepreneurship Institute, how to support informal entrepreneurs
Founded by the French Red Cross and the Kenya Red Cross Society in 2023, the Women Social Entrepreneurship Institute (WSEI) is an innovative program that supports women entrepreneurs in the Coastal region of Kenya transitioning to the formal economy with stronger businesses.
Leaps and GroundsIncome-Generating ActivityWorking together
Leaps & Grounds, supporting women refugees one coffee at a time
Leaps and Grounds is a coffee social enterprise that aims to break the barriers to integration for women refugees in the UK. It provides speciality barista training, paid work experience and 1-2-1 employability mentorship to support women refugees into long term employment.
Mobility for AfricaClimateTech as a tool
Mobility for Africa: Empowering Women through sustainable transportation
Mobility for Africa locally assembles custom-built electric tricycles that run on li-ion battery packs, powered through solar-charging stations. These electric tricycles are aimed at all sectors of the community, including small scale farmers and women’s organisations. The tricycles have been particularly impactful when used by healthcare workers, where they have enabled improved access to health services.
