By Benedicta Gyimaah
Folley
The Founder of West
Africa’s first food recovery bank, Mr Elijah Addo has received an Award for his
outstanding performance and contribution to humanity.
The prestigious Queens
Young Leaders Award was conferred on him by Queen Elizabeth II at a colourful
event at Buckingham Palace, England.
The award cited Mr.Addo
as a selfless contributor to humanity through his entrepreneurial skills,
charity and dedication to the general development of society.
Mr. Addo is among three
Ghanaians who received the award among 60 young leaders in the Commonwealth.
The other two includes
Winnifred Selby who provides bamboo bicycles and sanitary pads for deprived
school pupils in the country and Efua Asibon.
Receiving the award,
Mr. Addo expressed appreciation to the Royal Commonwealth society, Queens
Jubilee Trust, University of Cambridge and Comic relief for recognizing Food
for All Africa Programme’s effort in creating efficiency and sustainable means
of nutrition for vulnerable communities across Ghana and the continent.
He however, dedicated
the award to individuals and organizations such as Kwatsons West Africa Ltd, MaxMart Family
Shopping centre, Food and Beverage Association,
Belaqua, Blowgroup, Finatrade, Sucatrade and Meriems kitchen for their
continuous support towards Food for All.
He reiterated his
outfit effort in the drafting and passage of the National Food Donor’s
Encouragement Bill in Ghana which will institutionalize food donations in order
to support vulnerable in society.
He stated that “The
most fascinating of it all is having to meet the Queen and for the Queen to ask
me if I’ll love to cook for her which obviously I said yes. I’m going to cook
one of our favourite dishes in Ghana, Waakye”.
Winners of this
prestigious Award received a unique package of training, mentoring and
networking, including a one-week residential programme in the UK during which
they collected their Award from Her
Majesty The Queen.
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