• Willing Hands

    BUILDING AFRICA'S
    LEADING SEAFOOD
    GROUP OF COMPANIES

  • Willing Hands

    IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
    LOCAL PARTNERS WE AT
    WILLING HANDS, DESIGN
    BUILD AND OPERATE
    INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS

  • Willing Hands

    COMMERCIAL AQUACULTURE
    COMMERCIAL CAPTURE FISHERIES
    COMMERCIAL FEED MILLS

THE GOAL:
To become the largest Seafood Group
of companies within Africa in 7 years.

WHAT WE DO

Willing Hands is currently participating in several exciting projects across the globe, but our primary focus is the continent of Africa, where we hire and train local staff to operate commercial Fish Farms-, Capture Fisheries- or Feed Mill projects. We promote the local economy and job creation by sourcing raw materials locally, this also reduces our carbon ensuring a green footprint everywhere we go.

Through working with National Governments and Local Governments throughout Africa we have provided better living conditions to many people with “willing hands” to work, through sustainable community development which Willing Hands has devoted itself to being the leading gem in developing Africa!

Willing Hands project phases

DESIGN PHASE

BUILD PHASE

OPERATIONAL PHASE

  • FEASIBILITY STUDY
    Discusses the upstream and downstream risks and opportunities and their mitigation.
  • OUTPUT
    Site selection, species selection, farm technology, management organization, production and profitability, constraints. Species biomass build-up.
  • BUSINESS PLAN & FINANCIAL MODEL
    Biomass build-up to financial model and CAPEX regime.
  • Appropriate technology for the site and species.
  • Cage layouts and mooring requirements specific to the site & environmental parameters.
  • Management oversight of local construction.
  • Timing of technology inputs on build completion.
  • Set-up and install technology ready for next phase.
  • Input from management on critical management team and members.
  • Introduction & use of IoT based security and management planning and record keeping.
  • Daily, weekly and monthly staff scheduling and recording.
  • Sales and marketing concepts.

Our team has been involved in designing, constructing and managing two of the largest commercial fish farms in Sub-Sahara Africa.

We have taken this experience and harnessed a business model that standardizes all parts of operations in commercial fish farming according to a ISO9001 Quality Management System and also standardized the equipment and technology stack accordingly.

ABOUT US

Incorporated in Norway, Willing Hands A.S. (“WH”) is a private company founded in 2016 to address a gap in the global aquamarine market.

Targeting Africa, a seemingly complex and overlooked continent, WH focused on the scoping, design, financing, building, operating, and transferring of complete value chains in the aquamarine industry.

Willing Hands ensures profitability while exercising the strong values of environmental, social, and governance practices (ESG).

This enables profitable, industrial and sustainable development that catalyses the creation of a competitive labour force and a more robust local economy.

The Willing Hands business model provides transparency, control, continuous improvement and an ongoing revenue stream back to the Business in Norway.

Willing Hands utilises industries where Norway is globally competitive.

WHO WE ARE

As Willing Hands Group of companies, we are an international Turnkey Solution provider of project funding and project execution through our group of companies and partners, which consists of a seasoned and competent team within our areas of expertise.

We bring together Design, Engineering, Construction, Operations, Capital and creativity on an international level to achieve our goals and objectives.

Willing Hands is affiliated with several international, regional and local banks and players with private capital.

Willing Hands has established several strategic relationships with groups that add value to our services. We have formed alliances with financial groups, Sovereign Wealth Funds and other Monetary Institutions that provide the necessary means and expertise to deliver first-class turnkey development solutions.

We consciously hire senior management with a broad range of management experiences based on decades of work in many different disciplines within our field.

MEET THE TEAM

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Ari Magnus Mathiesen

Managing Director

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Beate Simonstad

Quality Manager

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Hubert Mengi

CFO

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Paul Volrath

Operations Manager

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Anders Nielsen

Group Farm Manager

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Kumbirai Makunike

Deputy Group Farm Manager

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived.
It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will
determine the significance of the life we lead.

Contact Willing Hands

Main Office

Skippergata 17
4611Kristiansand
Norway

Telephone

+ 47 9013 2494

Postal Address

Skippergata 17
4611Kristiansand
Norway

Enquiries/Sales

Anders Nielsen
anders.nielsen@willinghands.com

E-mail

post@willinghands.com

Whatsapp

+45 28410284