Starting a restaurant to serve traditional Ghanaian cuisine

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About Me

My name is Catherine Effah Ababio but I'd like to be called as Cathy. I'm 24 years old and a single woman. I'm the third child, 3 girls and 2 boys in my nuclear family. I'm very closed with my parents and all of my siblings especially with my youngest brother since he lived with me and we do thing in common.

I think my family tree is unique because I have a cross-cultural extended family. I have uncles and aunts (from my father side) with a different religious beliefs and cultures which are Christian and Muslem. Therefore, we always had a great time gathering together especially when it comes to a festival and celebration days like on Eid Al-Fitr, Christmas and wedding ceremonies as well. In fact, this is a common situation in my country especially in my home town.


I also love to watch film, listen to music or visiting to my sibling's house in my spare time. Other than that, I love to travel as well. I always spend my holidays to go to new places within my country.

I took General Art while I was in Senior High School. After I graduated, I work as a Secretary in a Governrmet Sector which is been under Social Welfare Department for about 2 years. I love my job because it gives me a lot of experiences and shows me a different range of life backgrounds and human behaviours specifically for the youth. All these experiences are useful to myself and make me realize how I should be grateful for having a nice and loving family.

However, sometimes I've had a hard time since there are a lot of challenges as well. But even so, I've tried to look in a positive side, because I know dealing with human isn't an easy thing. In order to improve my work performance and myself, I believe there are still many things I have to learn, and need to strive for having a better life in the future.

My Business

I am going to use this loan to create a mini restaurant which is going to be self own, which will allow me to enhance and enrich my productivity. It will also bring me more income so that i can use it to improve my leaving and family. It will also help me take good care of my junior brother in terms of shelter and school needs.This loan will help me to be self dependent. It will help me to be my own boss without depending on someones business before moving on with life. It will help me to create any avenue or expand my business when necessary. It help employ 4 people for a start but when business expand I can help employ about 30 people or more.

Loan Proposal

Most Ghanaian dishes are usually served with a stew (often based on tomato with other protein cooked in it) or soup. The most popular soups are groundnut soup, light soup, and palmnut soup. Okra soup and stew are also popular. Usually rice and kenkey are served with soup or stew, while banku, fufu, akple and konkonte are served with soup.

A popular side dish in Ghana is kelewele. It is sometimes served with rice and stew, and sometimes eaten alone as a dessert. Another popular dish is kontomire which is mashed up taro (cocoyam) leaves. It is often mixed with bits of tuna and egusi (pumpkin seeds) and dressed with palm oil.

An alternative to the starch and stew combination is “Red Red”, a very popular and easy to find dish. It is made up of a mashed bean stew served with fried plantain. It earns its name from the red spices that tint both the stew and plantain.

When given this loan I would like to start with the preparation of rice and stew in addition with the kelewele so that when things progress I will then add some of the dishes like banku with okro soup and stew.

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