My name is Dalen. I’m 14 years old. I have been learning in Liger Leadership Academy for 2 years. After I learn here for two years, I have been thinking of ideas that can change Cambodia to be a developing country. In this school have lots of kind of explorations and some events. For me I think all those explorations and events are all can help me to think of the idea of changing Cambodia.
- Compost exploration
There are many explorations that I have done, but the most interesting exploration for me is composting. I am really interested in it because I think it can change Cambodia. It’s about compost but I think it can help reduce waste in Cambodia. If we make compost we will reduce the waste from our kitchen. Reduce waste from kitchen? How can it change cambodia? If we don’t change ourselves first, we can’t change other people, so we need to reduce the waste from the kitchen first before we reduce the waste from the whole environment. If we reduce all the waste and turn it into compost and grow our own vegetables, it will give us a lot of benefit.
The benefit of making compost: when we make compost we will reduce waste because cambodia have 63,30% of food waste and we won’t use chemical fertilizer. Using Chemical fertilizer is really bad for our environment. If we make compost we will reduce carbon footprint. The chemical fertilizer also cause the climate change. For the farmer, if they use chemical fertilizer, the soil will have no more nutrient. The chemical fertilizer only feed the plants but it won’t feed the soil. For compost, it feed the soil for the soil to feed the plants. If they still use chemical fertilizer, next time they won’t have good soil to grow their plants. If no field to grow rice, How will Cambodia economic go? Because Cambodia depending on farming.
Benefit of growing plants, when we grow our own plants, we will reduce our money from buying other people vegetables. Sometimes when we buy other vegetables, they use the chemical fertilizer so when we buy them to eat, it will not be healthy for us. If we grow our own vegetables, we will use compost to put our vegetables, so we won’t eat the chemical fertilizer again. When we buy vegetables from outside so we will use plastic bags so it can also make Cambodia have more trash. If we grow our own vegetables we won’t use plastic bags anymore. Sometimes all those vegetables also can decorate our house make our look natural. In this exploration we also think about how to recycle, reduce or reuse plastic bags. We also think about the idea we should use bags instead of use plastic bags, use bottle instead of use plastic cup, use box instead of using Styrofoam box. We also recycle the old clothes into bags for putting vegetables or something else instead of putting it in plastic bags. I want all Cambodian people to think about the idea that can reduce plastic bags or stop using it and use something else. For the future of this exploration we will go to the villages and teach them how to make compost.
If I’m a president, I will tell all the people to practice my rule and I won’t allow people to use plastic bags any more. I think Japan is a good country because that country have a little bit of trash. One more thing they have been creating machines that we can take our own glasses bottle to put the things that we want to buy.That machine only have ingredients that have no plastic cover. For USA they have been creating the machines that can make all those plastic into small pieces Then they create new things from it. Some country they sell the plastic bags, if we need plastic we need to spend our money to buy it. They also use fabric bags instead of using plastic. I want Cambodian people to learn from those kind of things and now Cambodia is starting to sell the plastic bags at Lucky mall. I think it is really good.
After I learn this exploration, I really want Cambodia to be develop by having no more trash. This exploration is also a part of changing Cambodia.
- Technovation
Technovation is can also change Cambodia because now Country need to be developed by technology. If we join Technovation, it mean we want to change Cambodia. I have been join it for two times, after I join this event I think it help a lot to change our country. This event is about how to create appreciation to solve the problem. There are so many types of appreciation and those appreciation are about changing and helping our country. One more thing that I interested about it is this event can join only for girl. I think it so good for girl to have this kind of opportunity because it’s promoting women in technology and showing girl can do something like men can do. When I join that event, they said “ Before there have lots of men that join something about technology so now they also want women to join technology.
I really appreciate it because it about human equality and technology. I really love this event. I want all girls to join this event to make change for our country and want all the people know girl are strong.