About us

Organization
Enlighten Africa was formed in Uganda in July 2008 in response to the core challenges that face the majority of the population. Recognizing the bureaucratic challenges that often undermine the admirable efforts of major international NGOs, Enlighten Africa decided to incorporate as a for-profit organization. However, we aim to reinvest a large proportion of our profits back into the communities in which it operates -- and, in so doing, significantly expand our pool of beneficiaries.

Directors

Adam Williams is a chartered accountant with ten years of experience at two of the world’s largest accounting companies (Deloitte & BDO) in United Kingdom and Australia.  He has contracted for the Red Cross Australia and was involved in the complete restructuring of the finance department. Adam is ACA qualified and has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants for England and Wales (ICAEW) since 2001.

He has lived and worked in four continents and has travelled extensively, visiting almost 60 countries to date.  Although he is a British Citizen Adam has spent the past five years in Australia. He moved to Uganda in early 2008 to volunteer with the Kiva fellowship program. This experience afforded Adam the opportunity to write a report detailing his observations and offering his recommendations based on a needs assessment of the working poor with whom he came into contact.

Adam has served as Director of Community Development at a non-profit community based project which raises funds through an eco-retreat on Itambira Island. The funds it raises support its educational, health, agriculture and IT-based programs. Adam also provides finance and business skills training to Ki Kati, a not-for-profit initiative that supports a cooperative of tailors.

Stuart Campo is a graduat of Princeton University. He moved to Kampala, Uganda to begin a career in development shortly thereafter. Stuart lived and worked in Uganda as a Princeton-in-Africa summer fellow; this experience served as the basis for his senior thesis, which examines the relative strengths of prevailing development paradigms and offers pointed recommendations for improving institutional development models.

At present, Stuart serves as the Grants & Special Project Manager at Straight Talk Foundation, a major health and development NGO based in Kampala. In this capacity, Stuart is exposed daily to the challenges of African development. While he believes strongly in the importance of the work that NGOs and non-profit organizations do, he sees a critical role for business-minded organizations to play in development. It is in this spirit that he committed himself to realizing the vision of Enlighten Africa in a scalable and socially-responsible way.

Updated 11 July 2010