With only 17 years old, Salomón Sayago Mejías has a very clear goal: to save the world from the food crisis.
Since he was 5, his desire was to learn more about the plants and the plants growing in the garden of his house. Proof of this, is a small notebook that his mother keeps with much love, in which he pointed every day what he found in the yard.
That passion led his parents to seek how to help promote agro-biodiversity. And that is how the Salomón Foundation was born aiming to promote and motivate people to eat varied crops, to prevent the extinction of the seeds. It also supports the planting of fruit trees, for those who want to harvest their own fruits. It also organizes young people who want to perform community service hours.
The foundation has a program called “Punto de encuentro” (meeting point) that promotes agricultural biodiversity by offering four weekly talks by four eleventh-year students to first graders at Lincoln School. Once a week, they work with 90 children, with themes based on three pillars: agriculture, nutrition and orchards.
Salomón says his goal is for this program to reach other national schools next year, but also other Latin American schools.