Short Summary
Sprouting Good is supporting Homeless Youth through Urban Rooftop Farming. Our educational pop up project is to support Homeless Youth after a study revealed the highest percentage of homeless youth on the streets in Australia is 12yr old girls & was saddened by it. We have started working on developing sustainable farming to support Homeless Youth as there is a relationship between Farming & Life skills. It helps to build hope in life.
Contributors will help us to design & showcase our education pop up that is to travel around schools & universities to highlight sustainable rooftop farming & healthy eating habits. Homeless Youth will be employed as part of a 12 week work & life skills program that will give them qualified skills around aquaponics & horticulture. The fresh produce grown will be donated to charities to give to their homeless youth.
I'm Scott Gregory the founder of Sprouting Good in Sydney Australia. I
worked in retail sales for 13yrs, ran my own online business for 2yrs,
supported Make A Wish Australia for 3yrs & have just started my life
legacy Sprouting Good.
What We Need & What You Get
We require $17,000 in total to cover the greenhouse, container,seeds,aquaponics equipment.
We will be designing a video to highlight the process & the work we do with our homeless youth.
We will be taking plenty of photos of our grown produce that we will share with all our supporters.
We invite all our contributors to join us at a launch party when the pop up concept is in place.
If we don't reach our entire goal the funds raised will go in to designing our life skills program in a community garden to help our homeless youth to find hope in their lives.
The Impact
We will be able to change the world for homeless youth between the ages of 12yrs & 25yrs. The homeless youth will be part of a 12 week life and work placement program to help them build skills in Hydroponics and find hope in their lives. We will be providing a healthy organic food source to those who can't afford it. Our sustainable food techniques will help us to secure fresh food supply in Australia. As our charity expands we will turn our sites on to delivering the same sustainable food technology in third world countries to help eliminate children dying from starvation & malnutrition.
There is an environmental impact to having rooftop farms as it helps to filter the air in congested cities whilst cooling the inside building & reducing the need for air conditioning within the building which reduces the buildings carbon foot print.
Sprouting Good is a fully registered Australian Charity with a board of directors overseeing the operation & the direction of the charity.
Other Ways You Can Help
We would love your support so please feel free to share & make some noise about our campaign. The world needs to look at sustainable food production to ensure we look after our planet.
