Grant Summary: Over the course of 10 months, the project focused on women and restaurants to create awareness about veganism while empowering restaurants with essential skills on how to prepare vegan meals/recipes. The awareness portion of the project saw 51 non-vegans, who had expressed interest in learning more about veganism and support to go vegan, educated on the importance of veganism as a lifestyle, not just a diet.
The restaurant training/empowerment portion trained 60 chefs from 30 restaurants on two vegan recipes and the business advantages of having regular vegan menus in restaurants. Participants were trained on how to make meat substitutes out of soybeans and salad without using animal by-products and how to attract customers, make more profits and gradually reduce the public desire for meat consumption to save the environment, animals, people and the planet.
Quote from Organiser: “Although veganism is not yet widely known in Cameroon, our initial audience size was 60 but we reached a total of 111 people and 106 non-vegans who welcomed the vegan idea and expressed their interest to know more about veganism and how to go vegan.
This massive turn out is an indication that this initiative is loved and can lead to positive outcome in the long term.”
