Enriching Lives Through Feeding with Olashile Abayomi

Olashile Abayomi is a young lady led divinely (Holy Spirit) to touch lives and provide solutions to the needs/problems of upwardly mobile people who generally love Homemade Nigerian Soups and Stews but are restricted due time constraints and this led to the birth of Soupamarket. She uses her cooking talents to feed the underprivileged and she calls it #Soupastreetministry, she also travels to remote villages to empower orphans on how to make Ankara accessories for free(a skill she learned when she was serving - NYSC) amongst her other charity works. Her brand Soupamarket is a force to reckon with as she has worked with brands like Nestlé, Maggi, Cadbury, Google, Fan Ville, etc. Olashile also has a BSc in Political Science and an M.A in International Relations and world order.

Below is a summary of the interview Enriching Lives Through Feeding with Olashile Abayomi

She spoke through her passion for cooking which had been evident even when she was an undergraduate student. Now a graduate of Political Science, she recounted her journey from applying for one job to another. The dawning moment for she said was when she was invited for a job interview at an oil company and by chance, she couldn’t attend the interview.

She said that it was a turning point for her as she began to use her cooking to touch lives. She recounted that from that moment she began to purchase cooking utensils and started cooking. It had started from selling rice and stew in front of her church premises but then people were only purchasing the stews. The realization was spirit inspired that she start a soup and stew market which came to be Soupamarket.

She spoke about the doubts that arose from people looking to patronize the business until high profile people started patronizing only then was she able to break the market. She said the move to start feeding people through charity had started in November 2015 at a conference where she got the leading to feed underprivileged people.

At first, people took the charity feeding as a means to doing diabolic activities but they soon became open to the purity of kindness. She advised that in giving charity one needs to empathize with people more and have compassion towards their neighbours. She said that it was important that people give without taking the glory to themselves as this attitude attracts blessings.

She further went on to say that in giving charity people should be careful to give presentable items, that they themselves will be willing to accept from others. She spoke to the fact that the attitude towards giving cannot be faked as people could start with as little as one derica of rice and fourteen pieces of meat as she had started at first.