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End of year note from Sauti’s CEO

Dear Friends and Partners,

As we come to the end of 2020, we want to thank our clients and stakeholders for supporting the growth and use of Sauti’s digitized platforms. Everyone’s support and contributions have enabled us to continue building innovative and accessible channels for business and social welfare information for East Africa’s women led businesses. As we close 2020, more than 20,000 people are using Sauti’s information platforms!

The COVID-19 outbreak has made this year challenging for all of us, and our hearts go out to everyone affected by the pandemic. To help ease the effects of the pandemic on women […]

Sauti Trade Insights COVID-19 Bulletin

COVID-19 has imposed extreme challenges for East Africa’s micro and small enterprise traders, many of which rely on ease of cross-border movement for their profits. Others depend on gathering at local marketplaces where maintaining social distance is challenging. While immediate national health policies have focused on limiting the health and human costs of COVID-19, East Africa’s traders have been forced to make dramatic changes and adapt their business and market behaviour to the new realities of the global pandemic.

In all this, understanding the economic shifts in East Africa’s small-scale trade sector – one of the most important factors for poverty […]

Julia Hakspiel, Co-Founder of Sauti on Anchor Podcast

Sauti’s cofounder, Julia talks on the femme palette podcast about her life journey through the different experiences she has had and the decisions she took that led her co-founding Sauti East Africa with Lance Hadley. Julia shares on her commitment to empowering women in trade and her source of inspiration that leads her to addressing the challenges women entrepreneurs face in the sector through trade and market development systems […]