With a banner that promises “Good Food, Good Drinks, Good Times,” Lady Pam & Co. Catering and Bar Services has turned catering skills into decent jobs for women and girls in Bangem Town.
CEO Munge Pamela-Mercy Masango has trained over 25 young girls in catering, pastries, and decorations in the last five years, transforming livelihoods across the Division. Many now earn incomes from events across Kupe Muanenguba, while her enterprise fields calls for clients in the USA, Canada, Germany, amongst others.
Staff of the enterprise, dressed in bright green, Lady Pam t-shirts, displayed their banner during this year’s Labour Day celebration in Bangem, signaling the firm’s role in local job creation. The banner reads: “Good Food, Good Drinks, Good Times!” and lists services in catering, bar, lodging, rentals, and decor.
Masango’s motto is “flavour and comfort.” She offers services at affordable prices for funerals, birthdays, marriages, and all ceremonies. “We are a solution to every event,” she said.
The Bangem Town-based business, Tel: 670 078 470 / 652 074 393, has expanded beyond Kupe Muanenguba and Cameroon. Masango now receives calls from clients in the USA, Canada, and Germany seeking catering and decor services for diaspora events.
For over five years, she has used her kitchen as a classroom. The 25 young girls trained in catering, pastries, and decorations now run small food businesses or work in hospitality, improving their incomes and family welfare.
Her participation in the May 1 Labour Day march underscored the link between skills and decent work as reechoed in this year’s theme, “Social Dialogue and Decent Work: Factors of Peace, National Cohesion and Economic Development of the Company.”
“We train them, then we hire some of them,” Masango said. “That is how we grow Bangem.”
Lady Pam & Co. employs women and youths from Mbuh, Ekaku, and other Bangem neighbourhoods. The enterprise combines catering with lodging and rentals, making it a one-stop shop for ceremonies in the Division.
With mountains visible behind the Labour Day ground, Masango’s team stood ready for the next event, proof that local enterprise, flavour, and comfort can reach from Bangem to the world.
By Olive Ejang
