Cultivating mushrooms in
Dar es Salaam

Inspecting acquaculture near Kampala

Constructing waterworks in Ahakishaka

Getting Africa Out of the Poverty Business

WILMA promotes development in Africa through indigenous leadership. In contrast with conventional government-sponsored development strategies that tend to reinforce dependence on foreign aid, we enable committed African leaders to take control of their own development efforts. Furthermore, we focus on business leadership, which in its most successful form produces profitable companies, fairly paid workers, and improved living standards in the community. Successful businesses founded and managed by Africans represent a self-sustaining remedy to the problem of poverty in Africa.

As a result of WILMA's work with students of New York University, Dar es Salaam University, and various educators in Tanzania, WILMA has strengthened its program for the education of developmental leaders, whom we call Entrepreneurial Leaders of Development, or ELDers. Please read about this program in The Entrepreneurial Leadership of Development (PDF, 671kb). To implement its program in Tanzania, WILMA is joining with a micro-finance company based in Dar es Salaam called Empowerment Enterprises of Africa (EEA). For information about this company and its strategy for cooperation with WILMA, please see the EEA Strategy Paper (PDF, 348kb).