About Us
Garour Cafe is a social enterprise that target to cope with climate change and global food insecurity through low-carbon and sustainable living in simple and actionable.
The inspiration of our name "Garour Cafe" is from the word "garður" meaning garden in Icelandic. Iceland links us to think of eco-friendly which is very appropriate for our campaign since Iceland ranked the most Eco-friendly country and Second most Eco-friendly country according to survey in 2011 and EPI assessment in 2018 respectively. “ Gar” + “our” implies our garden provides the ingredients to our cafe.
Garour Cafe is the first cafe in Hong Kong that use unwanted tree trunk for furniture, Solar Energy System for electricity and self-sufficient crops harvest from our rooftop garden with the mission to encourage the public with sustainable, wholesome and creative food choices.
We donate the leftover of our harvest as well the leftover cooked food to Food Angel for people in need.
Co-founder of Garour Cafe
| Co-Founder | Paulina Suen | Elyssa Yeung | Cindy Behrens-Ng |
|---|---|---|---|
| Responsible Field | Website architecture | Project Design | Business & Marketing |
| Responsibility | Website Design and Develop | Design for garden & Cafe layout and decoration | Menu Design and Marketing |
| Academic Background | Computer Science The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
Product Design The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
Major in Food & Nutrition Science The University of Hong Kong Global Business Studies The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
We meet each other at the Msc E-commerce at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. We come up the idea of running Garour Cafe when joining the Campaign of Polytechnic Green Deck Project From Grey to Green in January 2019.
Our mission is very simple: let's have a eco-friendly lifestyle! Eat green and live green without wastage, without spoiling the world further.