Tayyaba Shahzad
Tayyaba Shahzad is a dedicated leader and creative force, weaving together community engagement and professional development to help individuals unlock their potential and thrive in ways that are authentic to them. As a job coach, she is a passionate advocate for uplifting youth voices and involvement. She provides guidance and support to emerging changemakers, helping them navigate their paths with purpose and clarity. With experience working with organizations like FUEL Changemakers, The Career Foundation, Love & Help Heal, and Apathy is Boring, she's developed a range of skills that enable her to build and nurture organizations through marketing, operations, outreach, facilitation, and training. In her free time, Tayyaba enjoys traveling, scrapbooking, and collecting books.
From the Ground Up
From the Ground Up is a 3-workshop program that tackles climate anxiety and food justice through a combination of storytelling and hands-on learning. Participants will learn how to start their own garden while learning about food preservation and sustainability. At the same time, the group will collectively create a Manifesto that will represent a narrative for a sustainable world they want to envision for themselves.
pendingAbout this Project
Communities Served
My project will involve and/or impact the following communities:
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
When it comes to community impact projects, the UN has created 17 Sustainable Development Goals. These are the Sustainable Development Goals associated with my project.
How the project works
Aug 10 - Session 1: Seed Starting – “What Are You Planting?” Aug 17 - Session 2: Propagation – “What Do We Share and Spread?” Aug 24 - Session 3: Terrarium Building – “Portals to a Planted Future”
Project Impact
The vision is to help participants take ownership and achieve independence by tackling their climate anxiety head-on through the careful and supportive guidance of an expert horticulturist and climate activist. This safe learning environment will hopefully inspire and bring people in the community that will continue to share their learnings with those around them. With the creation of the group's collective Manifesto and Video in the final workshop, we hope to share the group's work virtually. If more funding is secured and the program is successful, we would love to offer it again.
Project Mission
Our mission is to instill a sense of responsibility and community when it comes to tackling climate anxiety that will last well beyond the scope of the program. We will start with self-reflection that will build into collective group goals with the help of each component of the program building on itself. We will deliver this combination of hands-on learning with narrative building through 3 2-hour workshops:
Project Team
The team mainly consists of myself (Tayyaba Shahzad). But I also have Tooba Dawood, founder of Love & Help Heal supporting the program.
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