SUSI Summer 2017 - Dalia Essam Ahmed Mohamed Elgharib:

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Participant Name: Dalia Essam Ahmed Mohamed Elgharib
Project Location: Giza, Egypt
Program: Study of the U.S. Institute (SUSI) on Social Entrepreneurship
Term: Summer 2017
Project Title: Urban Gadening (Zar'aa)
UConn GTDI Project Award: Application Accepted & Funding Awarded

Dalia is passionate to support social entrepreneurs and help them scale up and deep. She worked with Ashoka India and the Arab world for a year helping social entrepreneurs with system's changing ideas. She also has 3 years of experience organizing programs and projects for youth in international cultural exchange contexts. Dalia has spent most of her time in college volunteering in different student activities, learning about human resources management, participatory approaches with the community,  and climate policies of countries. She has also enjoyed coaching speakers with TEDx. She came out to feel strongly towards environmental sustainability, gender equality, and education topics. Dalia wishes one day to share her expertise and create a social enterprise that would help people in one of those areas.

Organization Information: Urban Gadening (Zar'aa)

Lack of urban green spaces was obvious in Egypt. It was planned to build Hydroponics systems that are cheap and from accessible materials because it saves space and uses less water in urban spaces in Cairo.  Urban Gadening is supposed to help make Cairo greener through planting rooftops using cheap hydroponics systems.