Cathay Dupont Award and DuPont on their unrivaled support to 4-H

4-H is an effort made to teach young people to be leaders and learn by doing. It has been committed to its purpose of “engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development” for a lot of decades now. Young people are being provided with fulfilling, enjoyable, and educational opportunities by the trained adults.

4-H focuses on four personal development areas – the head, heart, hands, and health. To be more specific, it is about “head to clearer thinking”, “heart to greater loyalty”, “hands for larger service”, and “health to better living”.

The fast growth in our population is considered a huge challenge these days. Humankind needs to produce twice as much food in 2040 or 2050 because the population is projected to grow up to 9 or 10 billion in those years. We only have one planet and our resources are limited.

With such challenge, experts and researchers are developing ways to solve the problem, and one solution that could greatly affect the outcome of this predicament could be found in the country of Africa with its young people. Africa has 60% of the uncultivated land around the world. However, the young people of this country don’t look at agriculture as something that would bring them success. 

4-H began changing that view of young people. 4-H drives them to be more passionate about agriculture and it is supported by various project clubs, community clubs, afterschool programs, camps, workshop, and events.

DuPont, as a company dedicated to a better future, fully supports the global 4-H initiative. It recently invested 2 million dollars to help build leadership institutes in five African countries. In doing so, adults could have a proper training to teach children the importance of 4-H.  Read more....