WISER believes that educating girls

changes the world.

WISER believes that educating girls

changes the world.

WISER empowers girls and the hardest to reach communities through transformative education and (w)holistic health

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Honor the Hero in your life this Giving Season by donating in their name to the Girls of Promise Scholarship fund. Our goal is to provide 30 girls who demonstrate excellence in education and leadership with a full scholarship to the WISER school.

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Our Mission

The Women’s Institute for Secondary Education and Research (WISER) empowers girls and communities through transformative education and wholistic health. Our community-engaged, girl-centered interventions help girls transcend poverty, HIV risk, and gender-based violence.

Our 10 acre campus is in Muhuru Bay, Kenya, a remote village on the shores of Lake Victoria, where gender inequity is inextricably linked with health, socioeconomic status, and education. Girls from similar communities across Kenya come to WISER to live, learn, and thrive on our campus and in our programs.

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OUR GOAL?

To be a hub for excellence and outreach in one of the hardest-to-reach areas of Kenya while creating impact for thousands of girls and their communities.

The Highest Outcomes for the Hardest to Reach Girls

Group of WISER girls lined up and posing for a photo with their hands on their hips, and one girl posing on the ground.

people have access to clean water because of WISER

students have enrolled at WISER, and we have a greater than 99% graduation rate

school days saved due to menstrual Hygiene product access

See more ways WISER impacts the lives of girls in rural Kenya and the Muhuru Bay Community

News & Updates

On the Blog

Announcing our partnership with The Follow Your Dream Foundation!

We’re pleased to share that The Follow Your Dream Foundation is now the official U.S. fiscal sponsor for the WISER programs in Kenya! Going forward,...

Thank you Airbnb Community Fund!

We are so excited to share that WISER is a 2025 recipient for the Airbnb Community Fund grant! Thank you@airbnb and the Airbnb Host Community...

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“I want to mentor others, act as a role model, speak to people, and help people the way I was helped. To see something in others that they cannot see.”

– Mercy Adhiambo
WISER Class of 2014

“I want to specialize mainly in surgery, because it’s not something a normal doctor does. It’s something you have to study. And only a few surgeons are women, I want to be one of them.”

– Linah Samrah
WISER Class of 2018

“I think it’s good for WISER alumni to give back. We are supporting others so that they can rise up, the same way we rose up because of support from others.”