We are so excited to present Rise & Shine House to you – introducing you to the latest news and stories on the exceptional women of Africa, and beyond.
Rise & Shine magazine extends an invitation to join us as an esteemed advertiser. One of our key goals is to give businesses a platform to reach a wider audience, and this includes opening up investment opportunities. Rise & Shine magazine will offer visibility to a global audience, and also as an educational tool.

We make great strides towards networking with and showcasing exceptional women in business, as well as those women who would like to realise their business dreams. Rise & Shine is dedicated women from Africa and across the globe. We bring you human stories as a way of highlighting the positive impacts of women’s economic empowerment, and how it can be a key driver for sustainable global change and great achievements towards reaching the UNs Sustainable Development Goals.
Women’s Economic Empowerment is one of the core themes of Rise & Shine House. Our publication is delighted to provide works of encouragement, motivation and inspiration to women so that they can unlock their potential, and Rise & Shine in their businesses. The feature stories and overall themes for future editions will always celebrate African women and their journey to overcome life’s many challenges. It is also a celebration of the men who support the journey of women’s empowerment.

Some of our activities include empowering women through capacity building in entrepreneurship and business leadership. These activities are intended to unlock their potential, embrace their talents and to dream bigger.
We do this through storytelling, sharing experiences, conferences, mentorship and coaching. We use our platforms to eliminate the fears of opening a business, and to also provide the toolkits needed to start a business and connect women entrepreneurs to the global market.

We are committed to the promotion of women involved with Cross Border Trade and to help strengthen their partnerships. This can be achieved by assisting women to create a network of opportunities to trade regionally. This is needed more than ever as women-owned businesses were completely shut down due to the closure of borders in the pandemic period of covid19.

Rise & Shine continues to collaborate with our international partners to improve the work environment for our sisters in the Cross Border Trade to expand their products not only on a regional but also on an international market scale.
Empowering women through tourism is another core pillar of Rise & Shine House. We must fully recognize the importance of tourism in enabling women. Tourism is one of the industries that has been most impacted by the pandemic, with unprecedented restrictions being placed on international travel. The shutdowns has caused local and regional economies to be pushed to the brink of collapse. One positive is that over-exploited wilderness areas had a chance to recover. From a women’s empowerment perspective, the dramatic contraction of the tourism industry is particularly regrettable.

Prior to the pandemic, tourism had been identified as a powerful force enabling the pursuit of the gender parity agenda and in the creation of meaningful economic opportunities for women. Nonetheless, tourism provides workforce participation opportunities, which in turn can inspire or empower women to begin their own enterprises. Tourism can lift entire local economies – it brings an injection of foreign currency and often, governments will respond by improving or adding infrastructure such as roads and regional airports.

Tourism can also act as a stimulus to entrepreneurship at a micro-enterprise level: craft shops, cafés and service companies all find ready markets among tourists and the hotels and lodges they stay in. Again, many of these roles are aligned with women’s strengths. Tourism can revive or reinvigorate indigenous cultures – again, many aspects of the expression of cultural heritage fall within the traditional sphere of women’s activities. By promoting untapped tourism opportunities in Africa it will allow us to create more attractions and enable women to gain from tourism. We have a vast local, continental and global network that will allow us to connect our clients and audience to the larger public and achieve our goals.

We wish to extend our gratitude to our supporters. We recognize their encouragements and words of wisdom. Thank you for believing in our dream and helping us to make it a reality.

Yours Faithfully

Dr Florence Nisabwe
CEO and Founder of Rise & Shine House

www.riseandshinehouse.com
florence@riseandshinehouse.com