Biography:Sylvia Banda

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Sylvia Banda (born 1962) is a Zambian business woman, restaurateur and social entrepreneur.[1][2][3][4] She is an Ashoka fellow.[5] Banda promotes local food use, choosing ingredients for her restaurant from local and small-scale farms.[1][6] She started her own business, Sylva Professional Catering in 1986.[1] By 2009, she had 16 restaurants in Lusaka.[2] In 2014, she invested $105,000 in US dollars to open a food processing plant in Zambia.[7]

Career

Banda has also served as the chair of the Zambia Chapter of the African Women Entrepreneurship Programme (AWEP).[8] Lusaka Voice calls Banda "one of Zambia's most recognisable entrepreneurs."[9] Banda and her husband, Hector, publish Zambian cuisine recipes in a weekly Times of Zambia column called "Zambian Dishes with Sylvia Catering."[10] Banda also trains women on how to preserve local foods.[11] She has a nonprofit organization, Sylva Food Solutions (SFS) to help local farmers increase business.[12]

Banda works with the University of Zambia to offer an agriculture-based training programme that promotes innovative thinking as well as traditional foods and recipes.[13]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Zambian open window gave restaurant lift-off". BBC. 28 February 2013. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21551608. Retrieved 2013-02-03. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Top tips from Africa's entrepreneurs". BBC. 11 March 2009. https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7934763.stm. 
  3. ↑ "Growth Management for a Zambian Hospitality Empire: Sylvia Banda and Sylva Professional Catering Services and College Limited". Columbia Business School. https://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/mygsb/faculty/research/pubfiles/90/Zambia_SylvaCatering.pdf. Retrieved 2018-02-17. 
  4. ↑ "Sylvia Banda (Sylva Group of companies)". Startup Grind. https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-lusaka-presents-sylvia-banda-sylva-group-of-companies. Retrieved 2018-02-17. 
  5. ↑ "SYLVIA BANDA". Ashoka. https://www.ashoka.org/en/fellow/sylvia-banda. Retrieved 2018-02-17. 
  6. ↑ Chanda, Davies M.M. (25 December 2014). "'Add value to products'" (in en-US). http://www.times.co.zm/?p=46795. 
  7. ↑ "Sylva Catering invests $105,000 | Lusaka Voice" (in en-US). Lusaka Voice. 2014-11-26. http://www.lusakavoice.com/2014/11/26/sylva-catering-invests-105000/. 
  8. ↑ "Remove barriers for female entrepreneurs — Kaseba | Lusaka Voice" (in en-US). Lusaka Voice. 2013-04-24. http://www.lusakavoice.com/2013/04/24/remove-barriers-for-female-entrepreneurs-kaseba/. 
  9. ↑ "Nyamuka Zambia Promoting Transformative Entrepreneurship in Zambia | Lusaka Voice" (in en-US). Lusaka Voice. 2015-03-19. http://www.lusakavoice.com/2015/03/19/nyamuka-zambia-promoting-transformative-entrepreneurship-in-zambia/. 
  10. ↑ "Preparing Fishbone Soup" (in en-US). 28 March 2015. http://www.times.co.zm/?p=54284. 
  11. ↑ Chanda, Davies M.M. (5 March 2017). "Sylva Catering to train 80,000 women" (in en-US). http://www.times.co.zm/?p=94039. 
  12. ↑ Brown, Ann (2014-01-08). "Innovator Sylvia Banda Is Changing The Way Zambians Eat And Farm" (in en-US). AFKInsider. https://afkinsider.com/36988/sylvia-banda-changing-the-way-zambians-eat-farm/. 
  13. ↑ "Sylvia Banda | Ashoka | Everyone a Changemaker". https://www.ashoka.org/en/fellow/sylvia-banda. 



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