The woman behind our numbers

Enid Sirengo is a seasoned finance professional with over 15 years of experience in the non-profit and international development sector. Based in Nairobi, she brings a wealth of expertise in financial leadership, donor compliance, and grant management – exactly what we need as we scale our work across Africa.

Before joining Buzz Women, Enid served as Director of Finance and Operations at Emerging Leaders Foundation Africa. Earlier in her career, she held finance roles at Clean Start Solutions, Kianda Foundation, and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. 

Enid Sirengo:

“Through this work, I aim to help position Buzz Women as a scalable force for change across Africa – advancing our mission of driving prosperity home by unlocking greater economic resilience and opportunity for millions of women, their families, and communities. I started with Buzz Women on the first of June, and from these early days already a powerful moment stands out.

Together with my new colleague Shari Veldhuizen, I travelled to Kenya and Tanzania from villages to urban communities. And I saw it happen on one woman’s face. The moment she let herself dream again. It had nothing to do with hope being handed to her. And it had everything to do with hope she found inside herself, like it was waiting there all along and came out with so much light.

I work with numbers for a living. But in this occupation, numbers mean faces and families. We can build the most disciplined financial system in the world, it only matters if it serves the people on the ground. We achieve progress if the numbers reflect the story of a woman believing the future is hers to shape.”

 

“I work with numbers for a living. But in my occupation, numbers mean faces and families.“

 

“I came into those villages thinking about the differences. Different countries, different languages, lives unlike mine. I left thinking about how much we share. We assume the distance between us is wide. Up close, there’s not much distance at all.

What stayed with me most was the reminder that genuine human connection is not just a nice-to-have. It is the very foundation of trust, belonging, and lasting change. I feel privileged to now carry that experience into my work with Buzz Women.

So that’s what I’m bringing into this role. I will look after the finance and operations across the Moyoni Africa programme, part of our new partnership with Mastercard Foundation of which I’m incredibly proud to be part of. Making sure the numbers help shape the landscape for dreams to become real. Greater economic resilience reaching hundreds of thousands of women, their families, their communities.”

We are thrilled to have her on board as we kick off this exciting new chapter with the Mastercard Foundation.