WHIOH aim to create employment and sustainable growth for the local community in east Africa through value creating systems. The first system we have started grow is poultry farming in Uganda and Kenya.
Our purpose is to strengthen the local community over the long term with growing resources and activity.
We are building a reliable, profitable, and socially impactful system by:
1) investing in a quality-assured value chain and product,
2) ensuring financial stability, and
3) creating opportunities for employment and local entrepreneurship – from production to distribution.
We strive for predictable and high-quality deliveries of chickens to farmers, partners and customers in the region.
WHIOH is the brand of Steelneck Ventures Co Limited registered in Uganda 2023.
We are a growing team of ambitious people
We sell WHIOH-chicks, 1-day old broilar
We scale social impact
In 2005, a Swedish entrepreneur Oskar Stålnacke traveled to Africa, where he encountered a Kenya in crisis. There was famine, aid resources were dwindling, and the people had virtually no means to change their situation. In the middle of the catastrophe, a drive was born to work for the opposite: to empower local communities by growing resources, increasing opportunities for influence, and fostering activity among those who needed it most.
Ten years later, Oskar met one of the locals Alpha, who wanted to raise chickens in Kampala and create jobs for many. This marked the beginning of what has now become WHIOH - With Hens In Our Hands, we bring resources and activity into the local community.
When developing the system we ”think like a gardener”: we have two basic principles that guides the decisions we make and the investments we do.
➡ We nurture potential. We explore possibilities in ourselves, in collaborations/partnership, in the local community and in our context – and when we find a seed (idea or project) we put it in the ground and nurture it as it grow.
➡ We influence but do not control the system. We have an agile strategy that adapts and evolves, and we creatively use and respond to change.