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Giving Empowerment through Agriculture
ABOUT MY PROJECT
For the past 80 years, the economy of Brunei Darussalam has been dominated by the oil and gas industry. This has blessed its citizen in such ways that education and health care services in Brunei are free. Oil and staple foods such as rice, sugar and flour are heavily subsidized by the government. As a result, the people of Brunei enjoy a high quality of life. Despite the wealth received from oil and gas sector, about 4% percent of Brunei’s population still lives in poverty. This is the reason for me to come up with the project “Giving empowerment through agriculture”. Also, I was inspired by the Growing Garden in Colorado where the youths grow flowers and plants.For this project, I will collaborate with my university and relevant organizations to set up a garden in my university and this garden will be managed and maintained by underprivileged people and people who had criminal records such as rapist, drug abuse, thieves etc. These people are usually marginalized and labelled badly by the society and with the implementation of this project, this will expose the youths to agriculture and farming. Besides that, this can provide employment options for these unfortunate and underprivileged people in a hope that they will try to change their lives and also help their family to get out of the poverty cycle.
FRESH FROM GARDEN
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Contact person
Email:
zimi.jaidi@gmail.com
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Activities of project
1) Giving awareness, campaigns and motivation to these people
2) Learn about farming and planting crops from experienced farmers
3) Involving university students in this project during semester break by participating on the farming activities and at the same time, improve their engagement with community work in Brunei
Specific age Groups
- Youths (Between 16-26 years old)
The goals of this project!
1) To empower underprivileged people that is classified as poverty in giving opportunity to find jobs to support themselves and their families.
2) To empower and give the opportunity for people who had criminal or bad records to find jobs.
3) To grow agriculture foods and be more dependent on local production.
4) To make Universiti Brunei Darussalam more "green".
5) In the long run, we try to help these people to be independent and get out of the poverty cycle.