"A high-quality medical analysis laboratory" - this is how biologist Corinne Pouassoum describes the concept of the Laboratoire d'Analyses Médicales Ange-Gabrielle. The company wants to provide extensive testing capacities as well as uncomplicated accessibility. Therefore, the laboratory is to be opened in the Ngousso Eleveur region in order to ensure rapid treatment of patients by the doctors of the various health centres in the region. An equally important concern for Corinne is also the employment and training of local young people, "also to contribute in my own way to the development of Cameroon."

Disinfectants are more in demand than ever since the start of the pandemic, whether in hospitals or in private households. That is why the Cameroonian chemical company GIC Bellomar developed a process to convert food waste into bioethanol - to produce disinfectants. "With our own resources, we were able to start production and distribution of bioethanol on a smaller scale. But that was not enough to satisfy the demand for our product. It quickly became clear: we wanted to start mass production. But we lacked the financial means to do so," recalls Martial Gervais Oden Bella, owner of GIC Bellomar. By participating in WIDU.africa, the company was able to continue paying the salaries of its employees, finance the transport of fruit to the company and thus expand the production of its disinfectant.