W4 is proud to be supporting its field project, Why-Not Women, a student association that works to promote women’s social entrepreneurship around the world. During the upcoming year, its co-founders, Mathilde and Bérengère, are venturing on[...]

    Honey bees are great cooperators: they find the best source of nectar and pollen, then share the location with their fellow gatherers! Inspired by these methods, entrepreneur Maryam Henein has created HONEY COLONY to enhance the[...]

    “We are not a standard business enterprise, but we sure are having fun!” says Tara Hopkins, co-founder of Turkey’s all-female garbage shop, çöp(m)adam. And what doesn’t sound fun about garbage!?   In fact,[...]

     Between twelve and thirteen thousand tons of fruit and vegetables are thrown out each year at New Spitalfields Market in London. And yet 60% of so-called food waste in the UK is in fact considered perfectly fit for consumption.[...]

On Social Business Day, W4 spotlights the revolutionary work of Grameen Shakti, which offers access to affordable, renewable energy for rural communities in Bangladesh and promotes livelihoods for the country’s poorest—the majority of whom[...]

W4 interviews social entrepreneur, Tara Hopkins, Co-Founder of çöp(m)adam, a community project that hires local women in Western Turkey to produce fashionable handbags from discarded trash in an effort to both reduce waste and provide the[...]

W4 is proud to feature the innovative work of Barefoot College—which, for over two decades now, has been harnessing rural women’s capabilities as change-makers in India!   In a remote village on the scorched plains of Rajasthan,[...]

In a country where a third of the population still lives below the poverty line, resourceful female artisans have joined forces to purposefully craft their own destiny. W4 celebrates the work of Paulina Samata and the Mbeya Bamboo Women’s[...]