WISER

Vision & Mission

Our vision is that one day all women will be granted access to equal and safe educational opportunities through achievement of gender parity inside and outside of the classroom. Our hope is that women will be able to maximize their potential to use their abilities to be active participants in their communities, not just as women, but as women leaders. We believe a girls’ boarding school is much more than a place where boys are absent. Rather, it is the center of cultivating the next generation of community, national, and international leaders.

Mission

The Women’s Institute for Secondary Education and Research (WISER), a Kenyan NGO, will be a model for girls’ education and community development in post-conflict, rural Kenya by establishing the first girls’ secondary boarding school and research center dedicated to expanding the social and economic capital of women in the southern Lake Victoria region. WISER will focus on academic excellence and fostering an entrepreneurial spirit of inquiry and intellectual independence, as well as providing programs to build leadership capacity in community health, technology and economic development. WISER will provide the first potable water, wind and solar power, and computer technology in the region. WISER will also work with community members who desire adult education, as well as provide special programs for young men who wish to become gender allies.