Benin

  1. Technoserve: Business solutions to poverty

Its mission is to lift people from poverty by giving them innovative and affordable business solutions. It aims to create sustainable change in people’s life through business. It mainly works with people who are involved in enterprising or people who wants to set up their own business in order to create a competitive business environment. Technoserve has been working with the same mission and impacting lives for more than 50 years now.

http://www.technoserve.org/about-us/

  1. Aid for Africa

The organization works in the problem areas of Africa and believes in the potential of African population in solving the problems. Its works include collecting and distributing books to school children, introducing medical strategies to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS and supporting women’s micro-enterprise projects. It has the passionate desire to help people of Africa to uplift them.

https://www.aidforafrica.org/about-us/

  1. MEST

It carries out a programme called Entrepreneurs-in-Training (EITs) where it provides 12 months intensive training to aspiring entrepreneurs in countries like Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Benin and Cote d’Ivoire.  It also offers funding to selected graduating teams in exchange for a minority stake in the company. It provides extensive full-time support and access to resources, mentorship and a global network. It was established in Ghana in 2008 by Jorn Lyseggen who is the CEO of Meltwater Group. The organisation believes in assisting talented and aspiring people through opportunities, support and guidance.

https://meltwater.org/about/

  1. The World Bank

It conducts extensive training and organises workshops for female entrepreneurs who are based in the countries like Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. It provides technical and capacity-building services for development of female entrepreneurship in these areas. It works in the areas of development and provides financial and technical assistance to women so that they can be financially independent and act as change makers in the developing society.

http://www.worldbank.org/en/what-we-do

  1. Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Foundation

It works to alleviate people from poverty and empowers girls and women so that they can be economically and socially stable. It is a privately-owned philanthropic organisation. It helps the countries to elevate itself financially through developing its communities and people. By alleviating poverty it uplifts the people of the country globally.

http://www.womenseday.org/about-us/our-story/