Brussels-based Afrique Initiatives operates two distinct services in the city of Saint Louis, Senegal: Pesinet, a not-for-profit health care organization, and St. Louis Net, a for-profit IT services company. The two entities share IT infrastructure developed and maintained by Afrique Initiatives, but have evolved different business models. Pesinet's model, while successful, is non-profit and therefore requires continued subsidy; St. Louis Net, meanwhile, is beset by a series of business challenges and is struggling to succeed. Afrique Initiatives' mixed results may reflect the difficulty of starting an enterprise when the impetus comes from an external - rather than an internal and entrepreneurial - source.

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