Aliko Dangote, the wealthiest person in Africa, was setting up a cement factory in Zambia. He asked Musonda who had traveled with him on the trip, why there was hardly any Zambian-owned bank, insurance company or equipment/raw material suppliers. Feeling both challenged and inspired, she resigned her corporate job and using money saved and borrowed from family and friends, she contracted a company in China to manufacture noodles with the
Java Foods brand. Four years later, she decided to expand her product line. She also decided to manufacture locally, and source the raw material within Zambia. Her next product is a "fortified instant cereal", which she refers to as "
porridge". It is made from
corn flour. She enlisted the help of
Partners in Food Solutions (PFS), a "consortium of leading global food companies that include"
General Mills,
Cargill,
DSM,
Bühler,
Hershey and
Ardent Mills. PFS engineers, business managers and food scientists from General Mills and Cargill, worked with Java Foods staff over the course of one year, pro-bono, to get the food processing plant in Zambia off the ground. The consultation provided for free, is calculated at US$50,000. As of June 2017, Java Foods limited employed 25 full-time staff. That number had trimmed down to 19 full-time employees by 2020. The products on offer are eeZee Instant Noodles, eeZee Supa Cereal (a "fortified instant cereal"), and Num Nums corn snacks. ==Other considerations==