Challenge
UPROOT is a start-up enterprise that aims to alleviate poverty, hunger and malnutrition affecting more than 7 million Filipino children aged 5 years and below, and introduce Community Shared Aquaponics to low income communities in the Philippines.
Description
We are currently working with urban & rural communities to provide them access to auxiliary income through Community Shared Aquaponics and give them the ability to make their farming practices more efficient, productive, and more targeted. Helping farmers to conserve their resources & allow them to grow healthier, locally grown crops that is near to where people live and is not dependent on the season.
Outcomes
We have helped marginalized communities here in the Philippines by providing them communal food systems, providing them sustainable food as well as additional income from the produce they are harvesting.
