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 in south west Uganda. 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

began working in development in 2007, when he interned with  Straight Talk Foundation (STF) in Uganda while still a student at Princeton University. After finishing his studies, Stuart returned to Uganda (in July 2008) as a Princeton-in-Africa fellow, serving as the Grants & Special Projects Manager at STF. Stuart worked with STF for nearly 2.5 years, ultimately serving as the Director of Special Projects and overseeing a range of different development projects funded by or implemented in partnership with major development actors. This experience exposed Stuart to the myriad challenges facing African development, and--in turn--fostered expertise in designing strategic, context-specific development programs in a range of domains, including communication for development, public health, environment & biodiversity conservation, peace & reconciliation, livelihoods & financial literacy, and education.

Following this formative experience in Uganda, Stuart moved (in September 2010) to Madagascar to join UNICEF as a Social Policy consultant. In this capacity, Stuart led the design and implementation of an inter-Agency Knowledge Management portal for the development community in Madagascar. This portal, named HayZara , is the first of its kind at the country-level, and serves as a pilot for future initiatives in other countries. In March, following the completion of his work on the HayZara project, Stuart will transition to a new role with UNICEF Madagascar, overseeing the design and scale-up of all 'innovative' programs that involve social mobilization, communication for development and technology for development across UNICEF's different core programming areas.

Updated 3 February 2011