The Ghana-based Food For
All Africa programme has been named the social enterprise of the year at the
2017 Premium Bank Ghana Startup Awards, reports NaijaAgroNet.
The ceremony organized last
weekend by The African Network of Entrepreneurs (TANOE) at the Movenpick Hotel
on Thursday 13thJuly, 2017 saw of over 150 startups in Ghana being
honoured various categories including Media, Agriculture, Health, Education,
Social enterprise, FinTech and Technology.
The Startup awards, the
organisers said, was designed to recognize and reward the works and
contributions of startups to the Ghanaian economy and also create a thriving community of
startups collaborating and empowering the Startup Ecosystem.
Receiving the award on
behalf of Food for All Africa programme, Chef Elijah Amoo Addo who was recently
awarded by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace was full of excitement for
the impact the organization is creating within Ghana’s food supply chain.
Chef Elijah also told NaijaAgroNet
after the awards that
Food for All Africa programme vision of creating efficiency and sustainable
means of nutrition for the vulnerable in society and asked the media and all
stakeholders to support them to have parliament pass the National Food Donors
encouragement Bill which will ensure that the vulnerable in society have a
regular means of nutrition.
He urged stakeholder to
support the programme in the quest to buy a mobile kitchen van which they will
use for providing daily meals to the vulnerable in society.
Chef Elijah dedicated
the award to his hardworking team at Food for All and called on businesses
within the food supply chain to support with their excess food since food for
all is a shared social responsibility.
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