Our Scholarship Holders in the Preselection 2018

Help People Help Themselves

Students4Kids: About 80 teams have submitted a project idea to this year’s competition of Students4Kids. The jury decided that your project is among the best. What do you think makes your project so special?

Amelie Detterbeck: Our project aims to help the people of Uganda to cope with hidden hunger without much effort and change within their daily lives. Through a suitable selection of naturally micronutrient rich harvest fruits, they themselves should be able to produce healthier food at low cost.

Hidden hunger is a problem with far-reaching consequences and a variety of causes. How did you come up with your specific idea against hidden hunger in Uganda?

It is estimated that 1/3 of all people worldwide are affected by micronutrient deficiency. Hidden hunger is often caused by the consumption of staple foods containing few micronutrients. Since poor people in particular are affected by this problem, we need ideas that are cost-effective and efficient – and we had on!

You have until August 26th to work out your idea to a finished concept. What’s the work on that like for you? Are you all working together on the concept or have you for example split up the different tasks?

The more clever minds take part in a concept development, the more facetted the final work can become – that’s why we all get involved!

The winning team of the Students4Kids competition will receive 10,000 euros as start-up funding for their project. What exactly would you do with the money?

With our start-up financing we plan to support our Ugandan team member on site in project work with the farmers. The analysis of Ugandan crops will also be funded to study the natural diversity of zinc and iron accumulation.

You have done a lot of research on the topic of hidden hunger. What did you learn that you may not have known before? What do you think everyone should know about the phenomenon?

Hidden hunger is a problem that affects many people around the world but is rarely discussed in public. We hope that our participation in the competition will also lead to effective solutions for micronutrient deficiencies and that the topic will receive more public attention.

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