WISER

WISER’s Programs

WISER Bridge: utilizing pay-for-performance teaching incentives, professional development and textbooks to raise the passing rate of Muhuru Bay primary school students to secondary school from 10% to 50%.

WISER Water Supply & Latrine Coverage: partnering with UNICEF-WASH to provide the first source of clean, drinking water to 5000 people and employ women to manage the water kisosks. WISER is also working to raise latrine coverage from 5% to 85% over three years.

WISER Youth HIV Prevention Research: conducting a 2-year project to identify risk factors for HIV infections and develop community-level interventions.

CHAMP (Community Health Advancement and Mapping Project):identifying geospatial areas that positively or negatively impact health behaviors.

CampWISER: creating gender allies among 40 high school students-girls and boys-during a two-week summer session led by Duke students.

WISER Football League: establishing the first primary school football league for girls and boys in partnership with the LAFC-CHelsea Football Club to encourage gender equality.

WISER Sanitary Pads: partnering with Johnson and Johnson to provide 120 girls in Muhuru Bay with sanitary pads, helping them stay in school an extra six weeks a year.