Fondly called “the doctor in the kitchen”, Chef Elijah Amoo Addo is one of the young  Ghanaian social entrepreneurs using his experience within the culinary industry to create efficient and sustainable means of nutrition for low-income families and vulnerable communities.

Chef Elijah Amoo Addo at 27 years is the founder and CEO of Food for All Africa. A food recovery company that operates West Africa’s first community food service through food recovery, redistribution, farming and forum for stakeholders within the food supply chain. Food for All Africa leverage technology to bring food to its target through community discount stores, food on wheels and a food sharing app.

His organization recovers between $8,000-10,000 worth of food to support over 5485 beneficiaries across Ghana.

His company was in 2014 selected as one of the 100 Global Best practices to end hunger and poverty in Ghana by Dubai International Awards for Best practices.

Chef Elijah was in June 2017 awarded by  Queen Elizabeth II as a 2017 Queens Young Leader for his courage and passion of re-inventing Africa’s food system by bridging the food gap between plenty and scarce within communities. Through his company, stakeholders within Ghana’s food supply chain are working to pass the National Food Donors Encouragement bill, a policy that seeks to institutionalize food donation in Ghana.

In 2017 Africa Youth Awards named him among the 100 Most Influential Young Africans, an initiative instituted to promote African youth movements and achieving and also restoring excellence in the works of young people across Africa.