Micro Africa Limited, founded in September 2000, is a regionally managed, for-profit organization that provides quality financial services to micro-entrepreneurs and low income individuals throughout Eastern and Central Africa. Its mission is to improve the livelihoods of its clients and the economies of the countries in which it operates while earning an above average return for its shareholders and creating a rewarding and stimulating working environment for its employees. Micro Africa was founded on and continues to strive towards the principle of finding the most effective way to implement microfinance in the African context.