Dans le cadre de la 3 ^e édition du Sufawe has been in business since yesterday Thursday, February 20, 2025, the promoter of Leelou Baby Food, Naomi Mbakam, is the winner of the Stand up for African Women Entrepreneurs (Sufawe) trophy from the Moroccan banking group Attijariwafa Bank.

Sufawe est une initiative qui promeut et soutient l ' entrepreneurship in Africa through the support and structuring of the projects of women entrepreneurs. Naomi Mbakam claims to have raised more than 40 million CFA francs in 2020 to create her company, in order to increase its production, which until now was tiny. It should be noted that it had 1500 FCFA in 2019, starting capital. She would have manufactured “Les Petits Pots de Leelou” in Douala” with national delivery on request. These are freshly prepared purees for babies. According to Alexandre Beziaud, managing director of Société Commerciale de Banque Cameroun (SCB Cameroun), a local subsidiary Attijariwafa Bank, the winner was chosen “for her courage, her resilience in entrepreneurship and her contribution to the creation of added values and jobs & thinsp;

The latter testified that over the past five years, Naomi Mbakam has started making infant flours by creating her gourmet brand for children. An electrical engineering engineer, she is the head of Leelou Baby Food, an SME specializing in cooking porridge made from local ingredients (rice, corn, sorghum) for babies aged 6 to 36 months, packaged in small jars.

After winning the 2024 Pierre Castel Prize, Naomi Mbakam considers this new trophy to be “an additional motivation to move forward, to believe in your dreams and to ; make them happen”.