What I love about my job - meeting with founders around the world and talking about how we can create more success for everyone in the network. Thanks for all the inspiration and ideas Vivens Uwizeyimana!

Congratulations to the first Westerwelle Founder of the Year: Naom Monari founder of Bena Care - alleviating the burden of long-term hospital stays in Kenya by providing affordable homecare services and equipment. Michael Mronz presented the award and a cash prize of 5,000e in Berlin.

Our ambassador @GermsanT from Mexico visiting Judith Li and Ida Huiskonen at our offices in Berlin today. It's been great a week of many in-person meetings 🌍

Ida Huiskonen is finally here 💃 She is visiting the WSHT in order to get to know our team and local entrepreneurs. If you're interested in connecting with the international network of the Westerwelle Foundation , come meet Ida ✨

Congratulations to @UmuravaWork our EP participant for raising 11,000 € impact investment from OVO.be after completing their #Sustech4Rwanda Program. The investment will launch a solution that will power the delivery of on-demand digital creative services & projects.

Karibu ​Ida Huiskonen, Westerwelle Foundation Global Community Manager. She is currently visiting Arusha until Sunday and is looking forward to connecting with our community members. She will also attend our Community Breakfast and Free Trial this Friday. Karibu Ida!

These people make me smile :)

We're looking for a part-time Marketing Intern to join us in supporting entrepreneurs in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The best part of the job is working with this awesome, young, and impact-driven team in Berlin. Who would be interested in this? career.qpage.one/westerwelle-fo…

This week our General Manager Sarah Rukundo has been in Berlin, where the Westerwelle Foundation has its head office. She will be in depth meetings with the Berlin Team and our WSH Kigali supporter #EvonikStiftung and Susanne Peitzmann at the Evonik offices in Dusseldorf. #RwOT

Hi from Berlin where Ida Huiskonen spontaneously met with Mike B. Ndimurukundo from Andela Westerwelle Startup Haus Kigali while he's in town for the #AGYLE conference

AEDIB|NET Digital Innovation Hub Tour✈️ We travelled to Brussels & Merida to visit successful Digital Innovation Hubs Réseau LiEU & FUNDECYT-PCTEX. Goal: learn more for our new project Smart Kilimo - an African #digitalinnovation hub, one-stop centre for Tanzanian agribusinesses.

Plenty of reasons to be stressed in today’s world.

The people working behind the scenes. So proud of the #team we've built and the #progress we're making.

What does our global team do when visiting startup hubs in Africa? Here's the week of our Director of Community & Marketing visiting Westerwelle Startup Haus Tunis. #WestwewelleFoundation #EmpoweringEntrepreneurs

This cannot be the reality in 2023. Female-led startups attracted less funding in 2022 than 2021, only 4%. Share this with a female founder so we can take them into #YFP23 and connect them to investors. Africa: The Big Deal analysis: bit.ly/3YiHEfc YFP: bit.ly/YFP-23

Ida’s in town! Our Director of Community & Marketing was in Kigali this week. Ida travelled all the way from Berlin to assit with ZEP-RE InsurTech Hackathon, reconnect with members & align with the team and WSHK ambassadors! Thank you Ida Huiskonen . Sorry if we overworked you 🤭

Are support organizations effective in Africa? Our answer: They're highly needed, but there's room to improve the tangible impact. Ida Huiskonen moderating the panel to talk about challenges & solutions with Sebastian Fittko, Nathaniel Witbooi, Marcel Schana & Chiedza Muguti.

Ida Huiskonen supporting programmes at Westerwelle Startup Haus Tunis🇹🇳 This time, Ida had a particularly good reason to visit Tunisia. She gave 3 workshops to the founders of our Invest4Growth programme. She also took part in the EP Demo Day, supported with marketing for SHIELD and Impact'HER.

Hello from Dar es Salaam! Isaack & Ida Huiskonen have been meeting with partners in Tanzania to see how we can join forces to amplify our impact. Funding for early-stage ventures, scalable growth & expansion, financial literacy - are some challenges we want to address.

Last week, we hosted our lovely Director of Community & Marketing, Ida Huiskonen, as she paid us a week-long visit from Berlin during her East Africa trip. Her agenda? 🤝 Aligning with the Kigali team 🚀 Catching up with the WSHK Ambassadors 🌍 Diving into Rwanda's investment