Enterprise Scale-Up
Helping to build a middle class in East Africa
Since 2017, the Hilti Foundation has been working with Hand in Hand International on fighting extreme poverty in rural East Africa by implementing a simple yet powerful educational program “Basic Entrepreneur Training” (BET) for micro-businesses. Based on the program's success, the Hilti Foundation has decided to launch “Enterprise Scale-Up”, a project focusing on those microentrepreneurs who have already gone through the base program with ambitions to invest and profitably grow their enterprises. Until 2027, the project will reach 20,000 farmers, helping them to improve their livelihoods and to contribute to local rural economy and social development through scaling up their farming-based enterprises in Kenya and Tanzania.