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The African Social Enterprise Workshop (Asew) – 5th Summer Edition!

Join us for the African Social Enterprise Workshop's (ASEW) 5th edition, themed Sustainability through Market Creation and Access. Explore innovative strategies, access expert insights, and unlock your social enterprise's potential in Africa.

Africa Academic Hub

Join us for the launch of the Africa Academic Hub on 2 Aug 2023 at 10 AM SAST, 11 AM EAT.

DRC Social Innovation Summit 2023

Join us on September 5th and 6th, 2023, at the Pullman Hotel in Kinshasa for the DRC Social
Innovation Summit.

Innovation

Powering Africa, Lighting Up the World

Strauss Energy provides electricity to homeowners and organizations at more than 25% cheaper cost than the national grid.

Innovation

Conservation

Another success stories illustrating the impact of the institute is the one of Gorilla Conservation Camp in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (a social enterprise of conservation through Public Health established in 2008 by Dr. Gladys Kalema).

Innovation

Recycling waste into affordable building materials

Dr. Oscar Aghan, an MBA in social entrepreneurship graduate, is an internationally acclaimed serial entrepreneur and the founder of Continental Renewable Energy Company- COREC. COREC is one of the largest plastic recyclers in East and Central Africa. It is an organization that uses waste and recyclable product to manufacture affordable building materials.

Success stories

Academic programme

The postgraduates programs of Masters of Art in Social Transformation, MBA in Social entrepreneurship and the Doctorate in Social transformation have seen a number of outstanding graduates from various fields emerge with outstanding concepts to steer the social transformation agenda.

Innovation

Graduates innovating to solve communities’ problems

The institute through its programmes have witnessed a considerable number of graduates who have excelled in their fields. Monica Kinyua, Assistant Director – Children for Peace Initiative Kenya (CPI Kenya) is an alumnae of the institute and a co-founder at CPI Kenya. She is a graduate of the Bachelor of Arts in Sustainable Development and focuses of building friendship between conflicting inter-pastoral communities in Northern Kenya.

Innovation

Community approach of education of orphans

Consolata and Peter Kunyada are the founders of The Mango Tree Kenya. Founded in 2006, the program works to change the lives of orphans in western Kenya, Tanzania and the UK with 4,000+ Kenyan children registered with the programme.