Ayisha Fuseini


Ayisha Fuseini is a Ghanaian social entrepreneur. Fuseini is the founder and CEO of a company called Asheba Enterprise, registered in 2013 in Ghana, working with over 600 women in rural communities in Tamale; Northern region. She established a processing center that reduces the workload of the women she works with. Her enterprise also provides financial services to support women in the Shea business. Her company produces beauty products such as soap, body creams and other products using high quality shea butter. She is also a supplier of shea butter to The Body Shop chain.
As part of her venture into entrepreneurship, she joined the CAMFED Association of Young Women Leaders. This opened many opportunities, including training her to be a peer educator. Using the knowledge she gained during the program, she organized and trained 70 women to gather and process shea nuts into butter. She trains women groups on improved production methods that fetch high prices for higher quality butter.

Personal life

Ayisha is a divorced mother of three.

Education

She holds a Diploma in Business Administration and was recognized as an investment business programmer by Invest in Africa's Business Linkage Programme in 2016.

Awards

She won two Invest in Africa awards in January 2018: Female Entrepreneur of the Year and Business Innovation of the Year.