Start Small Bay Area Spotlight: Mama Lamees
VLSC and Start Small Think Big partnered in 2017 to create: Start Small Bay Area, a community and business resiliency project that has really been hitting the ground running! Mama Lamees is just one example of the local entrepreneurs your support helps to create thriving sustainable small businesses.
ABOUT THE BUSINESS
Mama Lamees cuisine is a catering business serving homemade, authentic, and fresh Middle Eastern food that is made from scratch. Mama Lamees’ cuisine is a feast from the Middle East!
ABOUT THE ENTREPRENEUR
Lamees Dahbour, owner of Mama Lamees, is of Palestinian origin, and was born and raised in Kuwait. The origin of her cooking comes from her mother’s kitchen, where she learned to cook at 10 years old. As an employee of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, Chef Dahbour has lived in various Middle Eastern Countries. These experiences contributed strongly to her culinary skills as she has learned something new from each place she visited.
Today, she blends these experiences through all the flavors which create her delicious, authentic and unique Middle Eastern dishes. Chef Dahbour puts her talent, love and passion in cooking, and instills those same values in her children.
As a single mother, and survivor of domestic violence, Chef Dahbour teaches her children to never give up. As her success shows, no matter how difficult the circumstances, if you persist, you can persevere. She hopes to pass this business on to her children in the future.
START SMALL BAY AREA, a community and business resiliency project
Start Small Bay Area is a non-profit organization that provides low to moderate income entrepreneurs positioned to grow their businesses with pro bono professional legal, financial, and marketing services. Start Small helps our clients build and sustain thriving businesses so that they will increase their personal financial security and stimulate economic activity in underserved communities in the Bay Area. Collectively, our volunteers provide countless hours of one-on-one legal and financial services to hundreds of entrepreneurs and small business owners who could not otherwise afford or access them.
Visit our website http://www.startsmallthinkbig.org to learn more about our services, eligibility requirements, and to visit our application.
For questions, contact Mauna@startsmallthinkbig.org or (415) 966-2187.