N.A.N.A. Sarpong Organic and Venia Foods are complementary companies inspired by a family’s enthusiasm for mushrooms. Rev. Derick Sarpong and his daughter, Eirene Sarpong have innovated the common oyster mushrooms with simple know how collected from Internet sources into nutritious delicacies with mind blowing culinary taste and texture.
The aim of these two individuals wanting impact the world are to create job, alleviate poverty and the health improvement of Ghanaians.
Rev. Derick Sarpong, now visually impaired, continues to run his company with the know how he has acquired and the years of experience in organic mushroom farming. With the consistent desire to eat healthy and stay healthy, the mushroom market has generated local and international demand.
For Eirene Sarpong, her passion to cook has drove her the path of her business. Even though she had graduated from the University and had worked two jobs already, her cooking instincts kept tingling until she found her purpose in adding value to what her father had built over the better part of his life.
Having completed her Bachelor in Business Administration at the Ashesie University, she hasn’t looked back in starting private business. “I was very scared in the beginning and I was asking myself ‘what if’. Most of my ‘what ifs’ were in the negative. So my best friend told me instead of thinking of the negative ‘what ifs’, I should take my pen and paper and write the positive ‘what ifs’. So if I should ask myself what if people don’t buy my product? I should rather write what if people patronized my products? So after I did all that, I was a bit settled in my heart that it could work out. It really drove me to do what do now. If am to say anything about all these, the positive ‘what ifs’ were my source of motivation”
Unlike exporting raw mushrooms Eirene Sarpong has chain out a perfect stock of Savour products with mushroom base; Mushroom powder, Savour Mushroom Shito for vegetarians, Savour Mushroom Chips, Mushroom Kebab and Asumasa Organic drink.
The most interesting of all her product are the mushroom drink and the mushroom chips. For the first time in Ghana, Venia Foods have succeeded in producing chips fortified with protein “normally chops don’t have protein”. The Asumasa organic drink is noting you have tasted before.
When people think of healthy they think tasteless, Venia Food, in extension Miss. Eirene Sarpong, is on a campaign to promote healthy diet with their slogan “preparing delightfully health”.
Her candid opinion to the youth is that, “don’t kill yourself to do a job that you don’t like. I think people do that because they are scared. “I was scared when I started but when you take a step and you are determine, everything would work itself out. You just have to be positive about what you do or else you would realize that you haven’t lived life as you would have loved to.”
Mr. Sarpong is always excited when the youth show interest in mushroom. He derives great excitement from the positive he receives about his know how. Mr. Sarpong explains the investment potential and the significant returns it could bring to the country. “There are times we get demands and we couldn’t meet them. Holland was the first to hear of us. They wanted us to supply 20 tonnes of dry mushroom every month”. Unfortunately they could not supply. He tells of the huge potential in the industry yet under-utilized by Ghanaians.
Aside its monetary benefit and health benefit, the joint venture of this family creates jobs and training for the youth. Even after going blind in a medical accident (accidental over dosed by a doctor), Mr. Sarpong still insists on his business. “I train and employ them”
This is an inspiring true event of a family who produce with joy and love overlooking physical limitations to do what they are passionate about.
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