2008 |
With the decision of WILMA's program officer in Tanzania, Innocent Bash, to go to Columbia University in pursuit of a graduate degree, WILMA closes down its Tanzanian training center, WilmaFund. WilmaFund's assets are deployed to help support WILMA's past project groups in Tanzania. |
WILMA's cooperation with TTT Inc. for the creation of JVCEs in Africa is put on hold as TTT's founder and president moves to the Raytheon Corp. |
WILMA supports a team of volunteer medical students from Mt. Sinai Medical School in New York City who set up a mosquito-net project and an AIDS education program for villagers in northwestern Tanzania. |
While WILMA's cash distributions to Africa dwindle, plans to implement The WILMA Business Ecosystem become the focus. Work in Egypt produces a joint paper with Yusuf Sadek, an entrepreneur in Assiut, titled Plans for Organic Jojoba Egypt and the WILMA Joint Venture Commercial Estate at Assiut, Egypt. A related mission to Cairo results in an agreement in principle with the firm Sekem to set up a Sekem-WILMA Development Company that would seed community-based social business in Egypt. A trip in the Gulf leads to a proposal for Creating the Qatar-America College for the Liberal Arts and the Qatar Social Enterprise Incubation Center. |