Wiser

WISER believes that when girls thrive, we thrive. WISER empowers girls in rural Kenya to overcome the barriers that threaten their health, safety, and education. Our flagship program, the fully-residential WISER Girls Secondary School, provides the sustained resources girls need to be successful and healthy, including clean water, nutritious meals, school supplies, essential medicines, and sanitary pads. We supplement this healthy environment with leadership training, psychosocial support, sexual and reproductive health education, and hands-on STEM opportunities to build long-lasting capacity in all girls. Our approach, based on deep engagement and agency-building, has led to unprecedented impact since opening our campus in 2010. In a region where only 7% of girls finish secondary school, 100% of our students have graduated, 93% have gone on to college, and WISER’s alumni base now represents the single-largest cohort of high school educated women in the region. WISER has evolved into a hub for girls’ excellence and outreach in one of the hardest-to-reach areas of rural Kenya while creating lasting impact for thousands of girls and their communities.