Participant Name:	Zaw Lin
Project Location:	Northern Shan State, Myanmar
Program:	Young South East Asia Leadership Initiative (YSEALI)
Term:	Fall 2018
Project Title:	BetterAgri
UConn GTDI Project Award:	Application Accepted & Funding Awarded

Zaw Lin is an (Palaung) Indigenous person, who lives in a small village called Namhkay, Namhsan Township, a highland in Northern Shan, Myanmar. In 2013, he moved to Yangon to study and work. He is a youth leader at Ta’ang Youth Organization (Yangon), a graphic designer, filmmaker and music video director, freelancer of photography & videography, executive director of Yoma Institute of Yong Rural Leaders, and founder of BetterAgri which I have been working on since 2019 February after YSEALI Program.

Five-Year Project Goals:

• To have mobile app

Organization Information: BetterAgri

BetterAgri works closely with growers in rural and empower them to work collectively and provide training for production advancement. BetterAgri also engages with individual consumers, hotels, and restaurants to buy food directly from growers. BetterAgri’s solution for a new agri-market chain is to reduce the waste in production and shipping; make the grows to go directly to consumers; improve the grower’s income for their financial inclusion, better health, and education access; and to ensure the recycled waste from production, shipping and consumption go back to growers.