Now that WISER has welcomed all of our students back for a successful and safe academic year, it’s difficult to imagine an alternative to WISER’s COVID-19 story. This week, Jill Filipovic for Bloomberg Businessweek shined a light on the immense cost that COVID-19 school closures and disruptions has had on girls’ lives throughout Kenya. You […]

“I don’t have words for what it means to be back here after all this time.” While her visit looked different from her last visit almost two years ago – with distancing, masks, symptom checks, and vaccine cards in tow – Dr. Sherryl Broverman was so happy to be back at the school she co-founded […]

In early November, the Global WISER Family heard some fantastic news: our founding principal, Madame Dorcas Oyugi, was nominated for AidEx’s 2021 Humanitarian Hero of the Year award. And with your votes, she became one of three incredible finalists! The ultimate winner was Dahabo Bagaji, a midwife who also works in rural Kenya, and shares […]

At WISER, we are celebrating the ways our students and their communities have continued to be resilient and tenacious throughout the upheaval of the last 18 months. As part of that celebration, we are inviting members of the Global WISER Family from around the world to participate in our 2021 Virtual Event Week: Brighter, Bolder, […]