Africa's women entrepreneurs are the most underserved on the planet. We're on a mission to change this. Will you join us?

Lionesses of Africa Public Benefit Corporation is a social enterprise that builds and delivers at scale education programmes, mentoring programmes, access to market programmes, digital media, networking events and information resources that women entrepreneurs really want and need. ALWAYS FREE OF CHARGE. To fund these programmes we partner with Impact Partners who share our commitment and vision for advancing Africa’s women entrepreneurs.

If you would like to discuss becoming part of our Impact Partner network, please contact Melanie Hawken. 

We believe that women's entrepreneurship can help tackle Africa's challenges, transform communities, create jobs, spur economic growth and close the gender opportunity gap.

We also believe our programmes with the support of our Impact Partners have the potential to spark a movement far greater than each of us, and that this movement can lead to transformative change for Africa's women entrepreneurs.

Join us and help make an impact!

"Our Impact Partners share our belief that Africa needs more successful women entrepreneurs, and that Africa's women entrepreneurs need all of us. Our Impact Partners join our mission: provide the support, tools and inspiration required to ensure that all women-led startups across Africa have the chance to flourish."

- Melanie Hawken, founder & ceo of Lionesses of Africa

Join our mission to drive large-scale change by empowering ONE MILLION Women Entrepreneurs across Africa.

3 Key reasons why I believe women entrepreneurs can be incredibly impactful agents for change across Africa:

1. Africa has the highest levels of women’s entrepreneurship in the world - entrepreneurial energy abounds across the continent and needs to be better supported and harnessed.

2. Africa's women entrepreneurs are potentially amazing engines for economic growth and job creation - driving the two biggest employing sectors, agriculture and the artisan sector.

3. Africa's women entrepreneurs are the most effective agents for productively and equitably distributing economic growth -  women plough back 90 cents of every additional dollar of income into 'human resources', which includes their families’ education, health, and nutrition (compared to 30–40% for men).

Lionesses of Africa believes Women Entrepreneurs can be at the centre of correcting inequality on the African continent. Together with our Impact Partners we're on a mission to help them and their businesses achieve their full potential, so they in turn can fuel much needed social change and economic growth.

Empowering women through entrepreneurship is such an important opportunity. I hope you decide to join our Impact Partner community so we can start creating impact together!

Melanie Hawken

founder & ceo of Lionesses of Africa Public Benefit Corporation

BRAND CONNECTION

Our Impact Partners have the opportunity to build positive brand awareness and connections directly with our highly engaged user network of over 600,000 women entrepreneurs across Africa. They get to touch the hearts and minds of women entrepreneurs; they gain important first-hand marketing insights helping them to better shape their product and service offerings; and importantly they get to promote their brands and products to an important but often hard to reach market segment.

CHANGE-MAKING

Our Impact Partners are change-makers. They put their money where their mouths are and become partners in a mission to build meaningful impact for the most underserved women entrepreneurs on the planet. By aligning their brands with such an important and positive mission our Impact Partners tangibly demonstrate their commitment to supporting women entrepreneurs, women's financial empowerment and inclusion, and to contributing to social change and economic growth in Africa.