Learn how to make soft serve and gelato - and turn your skills into real income. Taught by Tanzania's most celebrated ice cream entrepreneur.
Start with simple equipment and locally available Tanzanian ingredients - no import needed.
Learn pricing, costing, machine setup and how to find your first customers and start selling.
Scale production, build a brand, and position yourself for hotels, restaurants and supermarkets.
Nelwa's Academy is a digital learning platform teaching practical ice cream production and entrepreneurship - specifically designed for the African market, using African ingredients and real African business strategies.
Three paths, one destination - a profitable African ice cream business.
A gentle introduction to making ice cream at home using a small machine and locally available ingredients. Perfect for families and first-timers.
This is the course that gets you selling - not just making. Mercy walks you through everything she learned building Nelwa's Gelato.
Private business consultation with Mercy Kitomari. Get your personalized roadmap for launching or scaling an ice cream brand in Africa.
Mercy Nenelwa Kitomari started Nelwa's Gelato in 2012 - not in a factory or a funded startup, but at home, with a single machine making 5 litres of ice cream each night, selling it during her lunch break at the bank.
From that one machine, she built one of Tanzania's most celebrated food brands. Featured on CNN's African Start-Up series and BBC's African Dream, Nelwa's Gelato grew from 180kg to 1,200kg of production per month - using uniquely Tanzanian flavours like mango, jackfruit, clove, cardamom, and baobab.
Now, through Nelwa's Academy, she is sharing everything she knows - so the next generation of African entrepreneurs can build their own story.
Every lesson, every product, every partnership is built on these four principles.
Every lesson is designed to produce a real result - not just knowledge. You leave each session with something you can use today.
We teach what works here. Local ingredients, local context, local market. We don't teach European methods and hope they translate.
You're not just learning to make ice cream. You're learning to build a business, price products correctly, and find real customers.
From Dar es Salaam to Cameroon - empowering women and youth entrepreneurs across Africa, one scoop at a time.
Real results from real entrepreneurs across Tanzania and beyond.
I never thought I could start a business from my kitchen. Nelwa's Academy showed me exactly how - with products I could actually find in Kariakoo market.
The soft serve course paid for itself in the first week of selling. Mercy teaches you everything you actually need - and nothing you don't.
Finally a course designed for our African market - local ingredients, real pricing, real customers. I now supply two restaurants in Arusha.
Book a private session with Mercy Kitomari - Tanzania's most recognized ice cream entrepreneur - and get a personalized roadmap for your business.
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