#SocialImpact
‘Solape Akinpelu is a member of the Personal Finance Speakers Association (USA) and a licenced financial education instructor, the founder of HerVest, an inclusive financial platform for underprivileged and marginalised women in Africa.
Through her platform, women can engage in impact investing, savings, and lending with focus on small-holder female farmers in Africa.
HerVest addresses the $42 billion gender funding gap in Africa, where over 36% of women are employed in agriculture. It does this by offering digitalized e-extension services, livestock, grain banks, and growth prospects for certain crops to women small farmers in remote areas. Through access to cash, markets, and training, their cooperative members increase the financial capabilities of women farmers while reaping considerable returns on their investments. HerVest deposits are deposited with VFD Microfinance Bank, which is subject to CBN regulation.
The goal of HerVest’s women agro finance programme is to empower urban and semi-urban women to make critical investments, especially in female small-scale farmers, while also supporting these farmers, who are primarily underserved by markets and financing.
As a financial feminist, Solape supports SDGs 5 and 10, which aim to reduce inequality and achieve gender equality through technology, financial literacy, and capital access.
Solape Akinpelu is a highly accomplished business leader and gender-finance expert. She is the Nigerian chapter Director of Women in Tech, an international organisation with a double mission: to close the gender gap and to help women embrace technology.
Join us to celebrate this amazing change maker whose ingenuity is putting smile in the faces of millions across Africa.
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