Concerned about climate change, which threatens Africa and the world, she founded BleagLee to convert waste into useful products. She has received several awards and recognitions.

Juvenile Ngum Ngwa (photo) is a Cameroonian entrepreneur who graduated from the University of Bamenda with a postgraduate diploma in marketing in 2015. She also holds an advanced diploma in environmental management from the Vancouver-based learning center BCcampus. 

Currently, she is known as the co-founder and CEO of BleagLee, a cleantech company founded in 2019. Her startup aims to combat climate change by developing sustainable projects that turn large amounts of waste into useful products around the world. Its primary focus is to add economic value to waste while reducing the risks associated with its mismanagement and poor disposal practices. To achieve this mission, the company has developed software that quickly and automatically detects waste in various locations such as streets, fields, drainage channels, and green spaces. BleagLee's system is cost-effective, as it significantly reduces the logistical costs associated with the hours of driving required for data collection. 

In 2019, through BleagLee, Juvenile Ngum Ngwa developed a project to produce sustainable baking ovens from recycled metals. The project won her the first prize in the "economic development" category at the third YouthConnekt Africa summit in Kigali.

She has been in the waste recycling industry for her whole career (professional and entrepreneurial). Indeed, she started her professional career, in 2016, by joining Naccig Cameroon as a waste resource operative. She held the position till 2018. In 2022, she was also the business development manager for the same company. 

With BleagLee, she has received several awards and won several other competitions, including the YouthAdapt Solutions Challenge and the AFD Digital Challenge Awards in 2021.

Melchior Koba