Entrepreneurship

Women-led businesses transform local and global communities

Women reinvest their resources in their families, communities, and countries, making the whole world a better place – for everyone.  ABSF partners with organizations supporting entrepreneurship and vocational training for women.

AkiraChix
akirachix.com

Providing the most promising young women from disadvantaged backgrounds in Africa the technology and entrepreneurial skills to compete economically and bridge the gender gap in tech.

Bulogo Women’s Group
bulogowomensgroup.org

A community based organization founded in 2004 in Uganda to create sustainable opportunities for women and girls to lift themselves and their families out of extreme poverty by providing a platform to share skills and information for development.

Girl Up Initiative Uganda
girlupuganda.org

Building a vibrant movement of girls and young women through holistic education, economic empowerment, and youth engagement programs in the slums of Kampala, Uganda. 

OMAWA – Okoa Maisha Ya Watoto
omawatanzania.org

OMAWA, ‘Save Children’s Lives’ in Swahili, is a small grassroots NGO in the rural district of Moshi, Tanzania, established by a group of teachers to address the needs and rights of vulnerable children in their community. 

Pamoja Youth Initiatives
pamoja.or.tz

Pamoja Youth Initiative (PI) is an independent youth-led non-governmental, non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to empowering Zanzibar youth through realizing and utilizing talents and potentials in propelling socio-economic and plitical development in Zanzibar.

Panda Initiatives
pandainitiatives.or.tz

PANDA Initiatives (PI) is a youth-led locally registered non-governmental, non-partisan, community-based organization. PI was founded in response to support the alarming deficiencies of sustainable development goals in Tanzania.

Street Business School
streetbusinessschool.org

Street Business School is on a mission to end generational poverty by empowering women as entrepreneurs.

With Women Kisoboka
wwkisoboka.org

With Women Kisoboka (WWK) – meaning with women it is possible – is dedicated to empowering the marginalized women of Uganda who live at the lowest income level with agency, meaning, and connection in their lives to positively transform themselves, their family and their community.  

Young Strong Mothers Foundation
ysmf.or.tz

Young Strong Mothers Foundation strives to become a home of hope, inspiration, and solutions to vulnerable girls, teen mothers, and their children.