Global Audience Welcomes First 30 WISER Scholars Originally posted on January 8, 2010 Highlights from WISER’s Opening Ceremony on January 8 in Muhuru Bay, Kenya are featured in a new video. Watch it now: Several thousand WISER supporters gathered on the WISER campus on January 8 to celebrate the Opening Ceremony and welcome 30 WISER Read more
WISER’s Leaders and Supporters Gather to Celebrate School’s Opening on January 8 Originally posted January 6, 2010 This week WISER Co-founders Sherryl Broverman, Rose Odihambo, and Andy Cunningham along with many fellow WISER NGO Board Members welcome over 1,500 guests from Africa, Europe, and North America in celebration of the school’s opening and selection of Read more
250 Candidates from Africa, Australia, and Europe Respond to Organization’s Mission and Opportunity to Make Girls’ Dreams Come True in Muhuru Bay Originally posted December 8, 2009 WISER’s leadership team in Kenya, guided by Board of Directors Vice Chair Dr. Rose Odihambo, Executive Director Andy Cunningham, and new Principal Dorcas Oyugi, met in Muhuru Bay Read more
International Search Fulfills Organization’s Dream as School is Poised to Open in January 2010 Originally Posted November 20, 2009 The Board of Directors of the Women’s Institute of Secondary Education and Research (WISER) enthusiastically announces the appointment of Dorcas Admiambo Oyugi to become WISER’s inaugural Principal. The Board selected her after an international search Read more
The WISER Muhuru Bay Advisory Board once again was honored to host Mr. Gavin Bowen and his team from SolarAID to interview and hire five local community members to be the first SolarAID entrepreneurs and franchisees in Kenya. SolarAID has been in Kenya for only two months, now and Muhuru Bay was its first partner Read more
The WISER Muhuru Bay Advisory Board recently hosted Solar Cookers International for a full day solar cooking demonstration for the community. In just two hours, the team had cooked an entire meal full of fish, ugali, eggs, potatoes, beans, peanuts, vegetables and even a cake for more than 250 people in attendance with simply the Read more
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Durham, North Carolina held an alternative gift fair on December 7th and December 14th. WISER was one of 14 community organizations at the alternative gift fair. If you would like to give a gift that will make a difference, honor your friends and family with a gift to WISER. Please Read more
The day after Thanksgiving, WISER broke ground to begin building the first girls’ boarding school in Muhuru Bay. The groundbreaking ceremony was a community festival, or harambee, which literally means “working together for a common purpose” in Swahili. The community has truly embodied the spirit of harambee over the last few weeks, as they pulled Read more
The WISER Muhuru Bay Advisory Board recently hosted Gavin Bowen, country manager for SolarAID UK, his wife Tamara and six month old son Tenzin. Over the course of three days, Mr. Bowen visited seven primary schools and met with over 2000 community members of Muhuru Bay to discuss opportunities for micro and macro solar social Read more
WISER co-founder Dr. Rose Odhiambo was recently featured in Duke Today. Click here to read their account of Rose’s background and reasons for founding WISER.
Saturday Morning: 8:00 am
Saturday Vigil: 4:30 pm
Sunday: 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 10:45 am,
12:30 pm, 5:30 pm
Saturday Vigil: 6:15pm
Sunday: 9:00am, 7:15pm
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 8:30 am
Girls will be challenged
to lead, serve, make
decisions and reduce
the gender equality
gap in Kenyan society.