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Empowering Disable Kids in Agriculture ( Future Entrepreneurs)

ID: 2

By: Al Massa for Marketing & Designing S.P.C

The project that we are putting in your hands today comes as a partnership between the Association for Children with Disabilities and Al Masa Company, with the aim of delivering an agricultural sustainable, strategic investment project targeting the students and children with disabilities in the association. The project works to prepare and enable them to make optimal use of their time in the association in establishing and managing projects of economic, nutritional value and environment for themselves and their families benefit. This is done by establishing a greenhouse to grow vegetables with a hydroponic system without using soil, and training vocational students (females) and trainers to grow some vegetable crops suitable for cultivation in greenhouses such as (tomatoes / cucumbers / eggplants / carrots / etc.), and empowering the capabilities of children from the age of 15 - 18 years in all crop production and manufacturing processes, applying food safety and quality standards, product branding, packaging, and marketing through exhibitions held inside and outside the association.

1 year ago

About Project

Project Outcome: 1)Empowering with kids with disabilities ( Economically & socially ) 2) Create Entrepreneurs in the agriculture sector 3) Access & support disable association to deliver sustainable and impactful social welfare projects. 4) create an sustainable income, for the disable kids & the family 5) Creating Environmental friendly zone

Project Objective: This project is one of the sustainable and profitable agricultural projects that attracts the interest of target groups, as it works to use clean energy and create, control and adapt many environmental conditions that are not available in normal conditions that affect the cultivation, growth and production of these crops with quality and abundance outside the season and their presence permanently. This environment is also compatible with the conditions of the target groups, as it is the appropriate environment for them to cultivate and practice all post-harvest operations without fatigue, boredom or great effort, which will bring great benefit to them now and in the future. The results of experiments and studies have shown the superiority of this method in many aspects, as it gives abundant production and helps save a large amount of irrigation water, amounting to 90% of the water consumed in regular agriculture. In addition to dispensing with the various operations required by regular agriculture, such as soil preparation, adding organic fertilizers, and agricultural rotation, it also helps exploit unsuitable lands for agriculture, saves labor costs, and produces crops outside their seasons. Since plants differ in their needs for these elements and different environmental factors, it has become necessary to find many different types of solutions, each of which has its own characteristics that are suitable for certain types of crops and under certain environmental conditions.

Category: Social Welfare

Target Group:

  • Local Communities
  • NGOs and Nonprofit Organizations
  • Governorate: Muscat

    Town: Boushar

    KPIs

    Jobs to be Created: 15

    SMEs to be Supported: 10

    Local Products to be Utilized: 6

    Number of Beneficiaries: 30

    Beneficiaries Description: Disable kids & families

    Milestones

    Activity Duration
    Building Green house - One ready it will be Equipped with all the Equipment's and tools 60 days
    Training , Execution & Marketing 6 months
    Harvesting & Selling 3 months
    Exhibition , Branding & Platform Creation 3 months