Speaker: Dossiya Dakou, Abomey-Calavi, Benin
How (and why) are you taking action on climate change solutions in, for, and with your community?
Dossiya Dakou: Hi, everyone. I'm Dosia Dako, a child of Indi community from Benin. I'm sustainable energy engineer and green entrepreneur. I am here to tell about how I'm doing to empower agriculture because growth and food insecurity is a lot of enough of be. And I use solar energy irrigation system to help modern 100 farmers to do the agri very well after it, I'm using sustainable education to trade rural school pupils and our students about sustainable sustainable development and how they can commit to empower their resilience and their adaptation. I'm working with a lot of organizations in rural and urban area in urban area. I organized a lot of workshop forum and I participate of a work shop and so forum too as ac and so I'm doing little to empower Nyong uh to teach about green skills, how to be a more powerful to get a green job, to get a decent job. Thank you very much.
Who or what inspires/inspired you to care about climate change and climate solutions?
Dossiya Dakou: Hello, I am Dosia Dako from being a child of Androgen community, my first village where I burn and I grow, they haven't electricity, they haven't clean water. It is very difficult but clean water and they have a lot of time where they haven't the rain. And that is the reason why I see it is very important for me to work very hard to take the leadership role as a certain engineer today to work to, to become a certain energy engineer who I am today to work with renewable energy. Uh uh my experience in climate change on climate change to do more resilience in my community as a part of a scholar, as a scholar of the most organization in my country and other organization. Um I see a more empowered person as Ben Sanusi who uh was a lot of inspiration that I see is a leader. I can see and take, I see uh to uh Douglas Nanu of Cameroon who is a great leader that he empower a lot of about uh climate change, digital job skills. It is the reason why I am here to, to participate for sustainable development, goals, achievement Thank you.