Theme: Countdown

About TEDxTaizCountdown?
Through our first TEDxTaizCountdown event, considered the first TEDxTaiz event, we seek to participate in the global initiative launched by TED with the Countdown Series organized in more than countries around the world, and the event will be held for the first time in Taiz Governorate.
In the countdown event, we will focus on conversations that offer new solutions and local perspectives that prioritize four issues of relevance and priority for our city and community:
1) nature / how do we better protect and re-green the earth?
2) Food / How can we shift worldwide towards a healthier food system?
3) Materials (Recycling) / How do we re-imagine and re-make the stuff around us?
4) Energy / How rapidly can we switch to 100% clean power?

Al-rowad University
Al-dahy
Taiz, Tā‘izz, +097
Yemen

Amal AL-mogahed

Dietitian

Amal talked about her illness and how she resisted it through therapeutic nutrition, she also spoke about the importance of using dietary alternatives for different age groups.

Hashem Noman

Farmer

Hashem talked about the enhancement of the value of Yemeni coffee environmentally and agriculturally as it is one of the major components of the Yemeni environment. He established " Yemeni Coffee Club " to increase farmers' awareness of the importance of planting coffee and to encourage them to replant it by distributing 18000 coffee saplings to them.

Hend Fouad

Farmer

Hind is a young entrepreneur that talked about her passion for planting varieties of varied plants, the importance of planting them in every house, and how she transformed her small garden into her big project.

Rian Al-shamiry

Activist

Rian spoke about the solar oven and his initiative in training young people in making a solar oven, and that this idea is mainly aimed to relieve citizens' suffering and reduce the crisis of lack of domestic gas.

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Waleed Mahyoub

Teacher

Walid spoke about his personal experience in packaging beans at home from simple materials located in each house, and how this idea is important in serving mainly low-income groups as well as poor communities that lack basic services such as rural areas, displacement camps, and civil areas that experience a shortage of fuel, food, water, or electricity.