Clinton School graduate Shamim Okolloh was one of 15 finalists for the Rockefeller Foundation’s 2012 Innovators Challenge, which encouraged innovative people to submit ideas on how to address water insecurity, food insecurity, as well as key challenges posed by urbanization.
Okolloh’s idea is called “When I Grow Up,” a mass media campaign that will strategically integrate on-air and print media with on-the-ground mobilization and service delivery to encourage youth to become farmers.
Okolloh made the top 15 from more than 2,000 ideas that were submitted to the Rockefeller Foundation, which “asked innovative people and organizations around the world to submit ideas on three specific topics – how to use data to create change that improves the quality of life of poor or vulnerable communities, how to improve or scale agricultural water use efficiency, and how to encourage and support young people to enter and stay in farming,” according to a press release.
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