WILMA has experimented with alternatives to traditional development methods since its founding in late 1999. Working with national leadership institutes, U.S.-based charities, African NGOs, churches, commercial firms, and schools, we have concentrated on enabling African leaders to devise and manage their own development programs in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda. While government, social, and other leaders have made some gains, our experience has demonstrated that self-sustaining development — the kind that reduces and eventually eliminates a community's dependence on foreign aid — is a product of business leadership in institutions which generate enough revenue to continue operations, expand, and even give back a percentage of their profits to the communities they serve. In the same way that prosperous firms in the industrialized world have established philanthropic departments to benefit their communities, African companies - with the proper leadership - can flourish and do the same for Africa.
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