which are the expo 2020 dubai projects that improve lives and protect the planet?
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Dozens of innovations, ranging from agricultural initiatives that empower women and farmers to novel products that could combat desertification or plastic waste, are among the latest to receive a major boost from global social impact programme, Expo Live, run by organisers of the next World Expo, Expo 2020 Dubai.
Twenty-six projects from 22 countries have been selected in the third cycle of Expo Live’s flagship Innovation Impact Grant Programme, following a rigorous evaluation process that included live presentations in Dubai. The competition was particularly strong in this cycle, with more than 1,200 applications from 114 countries.
Expo Live supports projects whose creative solutions to pressing challenges improve people’s lives or preserve the planet, or both. These innovators will join an existing community of Expo Live Global Innovators, bringing the total to 70 grantees from 42 countries.
Through her social enterprise, Unique Quality Products, Salma Abdulai engages disenfranchised women to farm abandoned land, helping them to provide for their families and gain financial independence.
With the aim of helping such projects reach their full potential, Expo Live provides each successful initiative with a grant of up to $100,000. Projects are also supported with business guidance and promotion and may have the chance to showcase their work to visitors at Expo 2020 Dubai.
The Expo Live grant will help Abdulai purchase land from the community and prevent the women from being evicted once fonio cultivation makes the land arable enough to grow other profitable crops.
The Global Innovators operate in an array of fields, including healthcare, education, renewable energy, fintech, waste management and water management.